Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted to express no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Sapar Isakov on April 19 amid an apparent power struggle between the president and a leader of the ruling party.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım met Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov in the Turkish capital Ankara on April 10, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, citing a source in the Turkish premier's office.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 9 said Turkey would "help Kyrgyzstan in the fight against FETÖ," referring to what the authorities call the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to be behind the July 2016 coup attempt.

Representatives from more than 20 countries gathered in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Monday for an international conference on the future of Afghanistan.

10 victims of a fire at a shoe factory in the Russian Novosibirsk region, TASS reported.

The cause of the flare is a short circuit. According to preliminary data, most of the people killed are Chinese, and two are from Kyrgyzstan. They all worked in the production or in the warehouse. The fire, which burned on an area of 2000 square meters, has already been extinguished.

The past 2017 was the safest year in the history of commercial civil aviation. This is clear from parallel surveys on the online aviation security network portal and the Dutch consulting firm To70, quoted by the BBC.

But despite the To70 data, it warns that the extraordinary year is "luck", despite the high levels of security.

This could open new opportunities for development of business links, Putin said, and added that discussions were underway.

Te broadcaster paid special attention to Putin's meeting in the Kremlin earlier this week with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Serbian and Kyrgyz FMs Ivica Dacic and Erlan Abdyldaev on Tuesday signed an agreement between their governments on abolition of visas.

At a joint press conference, Dacic announced he would pay a visit to Kyrgyzstan to mark 20 years of diplomatic ties with the country.

These countries promised to meet international and European standards to block tax evasion until 2019.

In a set of measures passed by the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, made up of the economy and finance ministers of all EU states, it's made clear that Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro have accepted the European Commission's request.

Dacic told a joint news conference after the signing of the agreement that Kyrgyzstan is a great friend of Serbia, and that, in line with this, cooperation between the two countries needs to develop further.

Dacic also announced he would travel to the Central Asian country next year, for the June 25 marking of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.