Kyrgyzstan

Tourism is important to countries along the Silk Road in terms of the economy and humanitarian concerns, President Abdullah Gül said on June 5 at the fourth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Language-Speaking States held in the southwestern province of Muğla.

The United States on Tuesday shut its airforce base in Kyrgyzstan that had been the main transit hub for troops going to Afghanistan, a move expected to boost Russia's influence in Central Asia.
      

The Presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signеd on Thursday an agreement establishing the Eurasian Economic Council.

Kazakhstan's capital Astana saw the emerging of a 170-million-strong bloc in which free movement of goods, capital, services and working force are to be guaranteed.