Leaders of Central Asia’s nations are expected to gather for the second regional summit in Tashkent in the first half of April, a source in the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, the second consultative meeting will be focused on issue related to priorities of cooperation between the countries of the region.
The Central Asian leaders will discuss ways to expand cooperation between their countries in areas like trade, transportation and infrastructure development, culture, etc.
Recall the first regional summit took place in the Kazakh capital of Astana on March 15, 2018. The meeting participants reportedly discussed issues related to regional cooperation in all directions.
They, in particular, noted that Central Asia is rich in natural, transport-and-communication and human recourses that should be used for the benefit of the residents of the regions
The sides reportedly also spoke for intensification of the joint fight against terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, transnational crime and religious radicalism.
The last year’s meeting was the first regional summit in almost a decade. Before that the leaders of the five Central Asian nations have held informal meetings and have met within the frameworks of the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), etc.
Thus, an informal summit of Central Asian leaders took place in the Kazakh capital on September 2, 2006. The informal meeting brought together the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan for talks to discuss economic and other issues. One of the most important topics on the meeting’s agenda was the creation of an international consortium to manage the region's water resources.
