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Four of the commission’s five members set the Syr Darya’s winter regime at Avaza
The Interstate Coordination Water Commission’s 95th session agreed water-withdrawal volumes and reservoir regimes for the 2026 to 2027 non-growing season on Wednesday, after Shardara received 3.69 billion cubic metres in the growing season, 840 million above forecast, by Kazakhstan’s water ministry as Kazinform carried it. The Turkmen chair’s readout and the Kazakh one name four delegations, and neither names Kyrgyzstan.
The National Bank’s dollar rate falls to 447.14 after Tuesday’s 454.98 peak
The official rate for Thursday is 447.14 tenge per dollar, 6.51 below Wednesday’s 453.65 and 7.84 below Tuesday’s 454.98, the highest reading of the week, by the National Bank’s daily series. That returns half of the 15.61 the tenge lost between 30 September and Tuesday.
Tokayev puts a budget specialist into the Defence Ministry after a week of removals
Tatyana Savelyeva, a vice-minister of finance from 2016 to 2023 and chair of the Mazhilis budget committee until July, was named Deputy Minister of Defence by a presidential order on Wednesday, minutes after the Kurultai ended her mandate without a dissenting vote, by Zakon’s reports of 10:22 and 11:53. Asker Beisenov was released from the post by another order the same morning.
Three ministers answer the Irkutsk laboratory death as Moscow clears 90% of contacts
The death of a laboratory worker at Irkutsk’s anti-plague institute, pneumonia of unspecified etiology to Rospotrebnadzor and suspected pneumonic plague to ECDC, drew three answers on Wednesday: Mongolia’s health minister said temperatures are taken at the border and isolation rooms stand ready, Armenia’s minister told parliament arrivals face enhanced checks, and Georgia’s said there is no reason for panic. Moscow reported more than 90% of contacts released from observation.
The World Bank lifts Kyrgyzstan to 9.6% and Georgia to 7% as the region slows to 2.2%
Growth in Europe and Central Asia is likely to slow to 2.2% in 2026 from 2.6% in 2025, the World Bank said in its Economic Update released in Washington on 6 October, with Central Asia the fastest subregion at 5.8%, Kyrgyzstan at 9.6% and Uzbekistan at 7.9%. Georgia’s forecast rises to 7% from the 5% of April, by Georgian press accounts of the same update.
Uzbekneftegaz expects its gas output to fall 9.5% this year, to 22.8 billion cubic metres
Uzbekneftegaz and its subsidiaries produced about 17 billion cubic metres of gas in January to September and expect 22.8 billion for the year, 9.5% less than the 25.2 billion of 2025, Sukhrob Khamraev, the company’s first deputy chairman for finance, said in an interview with the O’zbekiston 24 channel reported by the business site Spot on Tuesday evening. Monday’s presidential readout printed no output figure.
The EAEU’s economic partnership with the UAE takes effect with duties cut on 85% of lines
The agreement on economic partnership between the Eurasian Economic Union, its member states and the United Arab Emirates entered into force on 6 October, Kazakhstan’s trade and integration ministry said as Kazinform carried it at 17:06. It abolishes or lowers import duties on more than 85% of the tariff nomenclature. Signed in St Petersburg on 27 June 2025, it was ratified by Kazakhstan in July.
Uzbekistan’s inflation rises to 6.4% in September while Georgia’s holds at 5.6%
Consumer prices in Uzbekistan rose 6.4% in the year to September, 0.7% in the month and 4.2% since December, the statistics committee’s release of 5 October shows, against 8.0% a year earlier. In Georgia annual inflation stayed at 5.6% in September, unchanged from August, with transport up 18.7% on fuel, Geostat said on 2 October.
Tokayev and Oman’s Sultan adopt a joint statement and eight documents, none with a sum
Kazakhstan and Oman exchanged eight intergovernmental and inter-agency documents and adopted a joint statement after talks in Astana on 6 October, Akorda said as Kazinform carried it at 15:21, from investment protection and air services to a joint fund of Samruk-Kazyna and the Oman Investment Authority. No sum appears on the page. A settlement on the Dunga oil field, signed a day earlier, awaits Oman Oil’s signature.
Pashinyan expects the Turkish border to open and keeps Russia’s reactor offer in play
The Armenia-Türkiye border is expected to open in the near future alongside the TRIPP project, with rail links to Azerbaijan and Türkiye to follow, Nikol Pashinyan told the first Armenia-UK Business Forum in Yerevan on 6 October, by Armenpress’s account. The same evening he said no final decision had been taken on a new nuclear plant’s technology and the Russian option is not excluded.
Tajikistan’s visa waiver with Iran takes full effect at 30 days in every 90
The memorandum between the governments of Tajikistan and Iran on cancelling visas for holders of ordinary passports entered into force in full on 5 October 2026, Tajikistan’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday as Khovar carried it at 18:00. Citizens of either state may enter, transit or stay for up to 30 days in any 90-day period, through land crossings, international airports and air routes from third countries.
Baku signs four documents with London on green energy and transport links
Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom signed the protocol of the 8th session of their joint intergovernmental commission and three documents on green energy, transport links and urban mobility in Baku on Tuesday, Azertag reported, with energy minister Parviz Shahbazov and the UK trade minister Lord Anas Sarwar signing, and Ilham Aliyev received Sarwar with a letter from prime minister Andy Burnham.
Moscow’s Afghanistan format ends with no statement as Overchuk reports trade up 2.5 times
The eighth round of the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan ended on Monday without a final statement because the Afghan and Pakistani delegations could not agree a text, Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, with the special envoys of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the table. Deputy prime minister Alexei Overchuk told foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi the same morning that trade had grown 2.5 times in seven months.
Pashinyan removes the security deputy who oversaw the border troops, with no reason given
Nikol Pashinyan dismissed Davit Sanamyan as deputy director of the National Security Service on Monday by a decree that gives no reason, Armenpress reported, and Azatutyun wrote that the major general coordinated and oversaw the service’s border troops. An Azerbaijani serviceman crossed into Syunik province and shot a woman in her home in the settlement of Shaki on 1 October.
Georgian Dream dismisses the European Parliament’s resolution a day before the debate
Every resolution the European Parliament has adopted on Georgia in recent times is not worth the price of the paper it could be printed on, the chair of parliament’s legal affairs committee Archil Gorduladze said on Tuesday, a day before MEPs debate attempts by Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties and two days before they vote on a resolution.
Mongolia’s committees close the budget revision and push the deficit cap back to 2%
Mongolia’s Budget Standing Committee finished the fourth discussion of the 2026 budget revision on Tuesday and sent it to the plenary, the parliament’s press office said, while a joint session with the Economic Standing Committee backed, by 71.2% of those present, a proposal to keep the deficit cap in the Fiscal Stability Law at 2% of GDP against the 3% in the government’s bill.
The tenge’s official rate jumps 7.25 in a day to 454.98 and eases to 453.65 for Wednesday
The National Bank set the official rate at 454.98 tenge to the dollar for Tuesday 6 October, 7.25 tenge weaker than Monday’s 447.73, the largest one-day move in its series since the end of August, and at 453.65 for Wednesday after the day’s trading on KASE closed at that weighted average.
Kyrgyzstan moves to liquidate 35 more companies over sanctions risk after the first 16
An interdepartmental group under the presidential special representative Bakyt Sydykov has identified about 35 legal entities with heightened sanctions and compliance risks and decided to liquidate them, the economy and commerce ministry said on Tuesday, with a reasoned appeal already sent to the justice ministry to start forced liquidation.
Baku talks to Washington and Yerevan to Tehran about the same peace track on one day
Azerbaijan’s foreign minister Jeyhun Bayramov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the strategic partnership and the normalisation process with Armenia by telephone on Monday, Baku’s foreign ministry said, while Armenia’s foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan was received by Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran and presented progress on the TRIPP route, by Yerevan’s readout.
Georgia’s 2027 budget reaches committee at 37.56 billion lari and a 2.5% deficit
The first version of Georgia’s 2027 state budget began its committee readings on Monday with consolidated receipts of 37.531 billion lari, 29.52 billion of them taxes, and spending of 37.562 billion, first deputy finance minister Giorgi Kakauridze told the education committee. It assumes 5% real growth, nominal GDP above 126 billion lari, a deficit of 2.5% of GDP and government debt at 31.6%.