Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.

In West Asia and Central Asia, IDU related HIV AIDS continues to spread in mainly Central Asian countries and Pakistan.

He drew the attention to the Central Asian region, consisting of five landlocked developing countries.

In 2004, about 110,000 Iranian trucks transported goods bound for Central Asian countries and Afghanistan.

Presidents of the post Soviet Central Asian countries like to be regarded as strong, paternalistic leaders.

Strengthening the statistical capacity of Central Asian countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals

The Central Asian countries opposition to a customs union with Russia reflects their growing trade with China.

The ECE and ESCAP component of the project focused mainly on Euro Asian transport links, including through Central Asian, Caucasus and Eastern European landlocked developing countries.

Besides countries in Europe, it also includes Canada, the Central Asian republics, Israel and the United States of America.

I therefore welcome the significant progress made towards a Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty by the five Central Asian States.

The States parties also welcome the decision by all five Central Asian States to sign the Central Asian nuclear weapon free zone treaty.

4. Welcomes the decision by all five Central Asian States to sign the Central Asian nuclear weapon free zone treaty as soon as possible

(3) Special Technical Assistance Programme for Central Asian Republics

Although some Central Asian countries have made progress, most still lag other emerging markets in accountability, rule of law, and reducing corruption.

Urge all States, particularly the nuclear weapon States, to fully cooperate with the five Central Asian States in implementing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty

In this regard, Conference welcomes the decision of all five Central Asian States to sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty as soon as possible.

Urge all States, in particular the nuclear weapon States, to fully cooperate with the five Central Asian States in implementing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty

Kazakhstan already plays a key role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a group that comprises Central Asian countries, along with Russia and China.

They share Western concerns about a revival of the Afghan Taliban and their potential support for extremist Islamist movements in other Central Asian countries.

Via their Afghan allies, Pakistan in particular but also Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and Central Asian countries are embroiled in a fight for influence.

The Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 convinced governments and central banks that countries that maintained exchange controls were able to weather the storm better than countries that embraced liberalization.

Since 2003, key Asian central banks have established two Asian bond funds with capital of 3 billion in total.

A Central Asian migrant worker walks down the street in Moscow.

2. Notes the readiness of the Central Asian countries to continue consultations with the nuclear weapon States on a number of provisions of the Treaty

In the meantime, Central Asian countries need sustained donor support, because private investment flows have not recovered to levels that preceded the global financial crisis.

Asserting itself as a major power outside the Western realm, Russia has boosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China and most Central Asian countries.

The greatest vulnerability is ascribed to sub Saharan and Central Asian drylands.

The Eurasia Media Leaders' Summit on HIV AIDS brought together leaders from all Central Asian States except Turkmenistan and was followed by the Almaty Central Asian mass media roundtable in June 2005.

We welcome the Tashkent statement of representatives of the five Central Asian States of February 2005, where they reaffirmed their strong commitments to establish a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia and urged all States, particularly the nuclear weapon States, to fully cooperate with the five Central Asian States in implementing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty.

The core programme of the Asian Development Bank for Central Asian landlocked States continued to focus on energy, transport and trade facilitation.

Tashkent statement of representatives of Central Asian States on the establishment of a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia

Tashkent statement of representatives of Central Asian States on the establishment of a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia

The full tool pack processing system is being used in all Western Asian countries and in 16 of the Asian countries.

Although Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries have resumed rapid economic growth, much of their recent progress simply correlates with surging world oil and gas prices.

While illicit drugs are moved through all Central Asian countries, Tajikistan bears the brunt of the scourge due to its location at the northern border of Afghanistan.

The good news today is that most of the Central Asian countries, their neighbors and the international community have recognized the importance of cooperation, openness, and integration.

Asian music encompasses numerous different musical styles originating from a large number of Asian countries.

Unless Central Asian countries and their neighbors cooperate in controlling drug production, use, and trafficking, this source of major health risks, corruption, and crime will not be eradicated.

Given that situation, the demilitarization of the Central Asian region is of great importance.

Their sample included countries in Latin America and Asian countries beyond Japan.

All Central Asian countries suffer from pervasive corruption, acute income inequalities, political succession problems, and transnational criminal groups that cooperate more effectively than the region s frequently feuding governments do.

It is important that all the Central Asian countries decided to sign the Treaty in Semipalatinsk the former nuclear testing site where the former Soviet nuclear programme was realized.

Since their independence, the five Central Asian countries have faced a particularly difficult set of socio economic circumstances that affect their ability to routinely produce the required statistical information.

Yes, the big Asian central banks do sit on almost 3 trillion in assets China s central bank alone has around a trillion dollars.

The rise in intra Asian trade reflects China s central role in East Asia s production networks.