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On the sidelines of the High-Level International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin held a bilateral meeting with Kirti Vardhan Singh, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Environment, Forest, and Climate Change.
The Central Asia–India Foreign Ministers' Meeting is set for June 5–6 in New Delhi. In preparation, officials will engage in discussions on regional cooperation.
According to Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two sides reviewed bilateral ties, exchanged views on key regional issues, and emphasized the importance of deepening strategic cooperation across areas such as trade, environmental sustainability, and climate resilience.
The upcoming meeting in New Delhi will bring together foreign ministers from India and five Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—as part of the Central Asia–India dialogue platform launched in 2019 to strengthen multilateral ties across political, economic, and cultural dimensions.
The meeting is expected to focus on regional security, infrastructure connectivity, and energy partnerships, as well as collaborative responses to climate challenges, building on momentum from recent high-level summits such as the Central Asia+Italy Summit, where leaders adopted a joint declaration on shared priorities.
This dialogue format underscores India’s increasing engagement with Central Asia as part of its “Connect Central Asia” policy, aimed at expanding influence in the region amid evolving geopolitical dynamics and growing competition from other regional powers.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
New restrictions have been reported on some social media platforms in Afghanistan, barely a week after a two-day nationwide blackout disrupted internet and telecommunications services in the country.
The Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh is scheduled to visit Baku next week to take part in the tri-lateral meeting between Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia to exchange views on the development of the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
At the invitation of President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has arrived in Dushanbe on 9 October to participate in the meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council.
The Kremlin says it is optimistic about talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, due to take place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Wednesday — their first full meeting in a year.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sent a message to participants of the international conference 'Combining Efforts and Expanding Cooperation for Resolving the Issue of Missing Persons', held in Baku within the framework of the Baku Dialogue on Missing Persons.
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