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  • Turkmenistan's neutrality effective factor in keeping regional peace

    TURKMENISTAN, 2015/03/18 Turkmenistan's neutrality is an effective factor in the maintenance of peace, security and stability, strengthening of confidence in the region, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made the remark at a conference with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Japan. The conference was held in the city of Sendai, which became the venue for the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, according to the Turkmen government. Ban Ki-moon as well stressed neutral Turkmenistan’s active position in cooperation with the UN.
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.