Investment in the construction of a solar plant with a capacity of 230 megawatts is estimated at $225 million.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that his ex-Soviet state had no chance of becoming a member of NATO at least for some time.

Satybaldy was detained as Nazarbayev appeared in public for the first time in more than two months at a diplomatic conference in Turkey and met Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Azerbaijan exports natural gas to Turkey and Europe through the Southern Gas Corridor and continues to make inroads into an energy market which until now has been dominated by Russia.

Uzbekistan, the 6th largest cotton producer in the world, has embarked on reforms that include the modernisation of the country’s former agricultural economic model.

The rise in the oil sector was 0.6 percent, while the non-oil sector grew by 10.1 percent in the first two months of this year.