The 1st Assembly of Central Asian Experts Forum

The 1st assembly of Central Asian Experts Forum was opened at October 29th, with the support of the President of Uzbekistan and ISIR (Institute of Strategic and International Researches), and also RCUPDCA (Regional Center of UN for preventive diplomacy for Central Asia).

Scientists, experts of analytics centers as well as international polyglots from Central Asia, Russia, USA, Europe, and China will also participate in this conference.

“Upcoming Conference will also help to elaborate new projects for the next meeting of Heads of States of Central Asia, which is planned to be held in March 2019 in Tashkent”, reported Natalia German (secretary of UN, the head of RCUPDCA).

Vladimir Norov (director of ISOR) notes that the unified strategy for the perspectives of regional partnership should be established.

He marked out a few key directions, to pay attention to:

• development of economics of countries of the region with the enhancement of industrial cooperation and rational exploration of water storage;
• development of the transport system;
• fight against religious extremism and terrorism;
• creation of tourist destinations around the Silk Road.

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The idea of implementation of an informal meeting between the Heads of States of the region was declared by Shavkat Mirziyoyev (President of Uzbekistan) at the 72nd session of General Assembly of UN.