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CIS experts progress in discussing regulations
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|  orking teams of the CIS Interstate Forum
much progressed in discussing ways to reform and to upgrade the activity of the
Commonwealth of Independent States at a joint session on Thursday, Chairman
of the CIS Executive Committee Yuri Yarov said at the Forum on Friday.
The teams took into account all the remarks of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan,
and many proposals of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Byelorussia and Ukraine when
discussing draft regulations on the CIS Executive Committee, he said. Almost all
the proposals of Azerbaijan and some suggestions of Uzbekistan were taken into
account in the debates on draft regulations on the Economic Council, Yarov
added.
Still, some differences remain. For instance, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan
and Ukraine propose not to announce the CIS Executive Committee as an
international organization. Uzbekistan does not think it expedient to form a
council of permanent envoys.
If the differences are not settled by the Forum they are likely to be debated at
the next sitting of the CIS premiers, which is preliminary scheduled for October
in Ukraine.
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Uzbekistan raises wages from August 1
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| ages in Uzbekistan will be raised from
August 1, according to a decree signed by President Islam Karimov.
The decree also authorises an increase in pensions and students' stipends. Social
allowances have been raised by 1.4 times.
The document also sets the minimum wage at 1,750 sums a month (130 sums
equal one U.S. dollar). Minimum pensions and allowances to people who are
invalids since childhood have been increased to 3,340 sums. Disabled people
who have not worked will get an allowance of 2,025 sums.
This is the second increase in wages, pensions, allowances and stipends this
year.
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Uzbekistan is 83rd country visited by Japanese tourist
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|  zbekistan has become the 83rd country
visited by Hirotoshi Okuna, a 64-years-old tourist from Osaka, Japan. The
pensioner, a former staffer of a transport company, makes five-six foreign trips
every year.
That is the second visit of Okuna to Uzbekistan. Last year the visit was
darkened by unlucky accident. The pensioner chatted with travelling companies
on his way from Bukhara to Urgench and tried to show some positions of karate
he had used to master. He slipped and broke a leg, but doctors at hospital were
so kind the pensioner said he forgot about the trouble very soon.
This year he came to Uzbekistan to thank everyone who had helped him. In the
words of Okuna, it will not be the last visit as he wants to come back to the
blessed Uzbek land where good people live.
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