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Section 11 Central Asian Republics

V.11 Central Asian Republics

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(3) Special Technical Assistance Programme for Central Asian Republics

As members of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian republics shared in that transport network.

The message being transmitted from Georgia to Ukraine and the Central Asian Republics is heard very loudly.

It was agreed to pursue jointly the question of cooperation between OIC and the Central Asian Republics.

Despite its best efforts, however, difficult problems still face users, including those in the Central Asian republics.

14. It was also agreed that UNCTAD and ICDT would present a joint paper to COMCEC on the potential for cooperation with the Central Asian Republics and that the UNCTAD secretariat would provide ICDT with available data on the Central Asian Republics.

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

China is also a founder and member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), alongside Russia and the Central Asian republics.

(a) Potential for extending the existing trade financing facility of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to the Central Asian Republics

15. For the Central Asian republics, trade with foreign (non CIS) countries fared rather better than did their CIS trade.

Furthermore, Turkey was preparing another Agenda 21 with the cooperation of the central Asian republics and the Balkan countries, in which context it had hosted the first meeting of Ministers of Environment of the central Asian republics and Balkan countries, held on 4 and 5 July 1994.

31. One area that is being explored by UNCTAD is the potential for regional and subregional economic cooperation of the Central Asian Republics with the neighbouring Asian economies.

46. The emergency operation in the Central Asian Republics commenced in early 1993, at which time there were no established posts.

6. Uzbekistan shares a short common border with Afghanistan in the south and is otherwise surrounded by other Central Asian sister republics.

Such an enterprise would put to use the large fleet of aircraft available in the Central Asian republics suitable largely for airfreight.

Central Asian republics also face the problem of maintenance and replacement parts for their rolling stock, most of which have to be secured from other republics, giving rise to additional payments problems.

Central Asian Scripts

The Department joined UNESCO in actively disseminating these two documents world wide, particularly in the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union.

This is especially so for the Central Asian republics in view of their geographic isolation and their new status as land locked States.

In fact, air transport is already playing a small but significant role in the evolving diversification of the trade of the Central Asian republics.

Mongolia produces somewhat more than 3,000 tons (2,721 tonnes) (in hair), while Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and other Central Asian Republics produce significant but lesser amounts.

13. The breakdown of internally displaced persons in Tajikistan, Tajik and Afghan refugees in the Central Asian Republics and returnees from Afghanistan is given below.

The potential for those trade financing facilities, individually or jointly, to support the trade financing requirements of the Central Asian Republics also came up for discussion.

In February March, UNICEF mounted a mission to all those republics, except Georgia, and in October November to Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Central Asian States and Kazakhstan.

(b) Improvement of the quality of the truck fleet in the Central Asian republics to meet international standards for transit traffic, particularly as regards pollution control

Turkey has set out on a lasting path of solidarity with the newly independent Central Asian republics, with which it has historic, cultural and linguistic ties.

THE CENTRAL ASIAN LAND LOCKED STATES 3. The Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan together occupy an area of some 4 million square kilometres (larger than all of western Europe), and have a total population of just under 50 million.

In 1992, a special representative was appointed for Albania, while the UNICEF representative for Afghanistan acted as focal point for the four Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan.

9. With the unfolding disintegration of the Soviet Union, the individual Central Asian republics declared their independence on various dates between 31 August and 27 October 1991.

For the Central Asian republics, the economic dislocation and fall in output and income have been very marked in the years since the breakup of the Union.

For the bulky, raw material products traded by the Central Asian republics, the railway would seem to be the natural choice, but the situation has been changing.

12. It was mainly because of its adverse impact on trade with the republics of the former Soviet Union that the collapse of the old system led to such dislocation and disruption in the economies of the Central Asian republics.

Apart from the long standing effects in Pakistan and Iran, there is now evidence of escalating drug traffic via the Central Asian Republics on the northern border of Afghanistan.

This would allow UNHCR to commence the process of scaling down its presence, in order to be able to withdraw from the Central Asian Republics by end of 1995.

That would be our Central Asian treaty.

In coming months and years, we intend to increase and intensify that dialogue, especially on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, and in Central Asian republics.

This will now be undertaken during the course of 1994 and in 1995, with the objective of achieving a complete UNHCR withdrawal from the Central Asian Republics by December 1995.

55. As the Central Asian Republics were recognized as having extremely difficult working conditions, including staff insecurity and physical isolation, these duty locations were categorized as non family mission areas.

These included the provision of technical assistance for developing and implementing policies for the economic and social restructuring in the new members from the Central Asian republics and other disadvantaged economies.

While the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is strengthening the internal cooperation among its member States, Saudi Arabia is also gradually building up economic ties with the newly independent central Asian Republics.

In addition to the three founding members of ECO (the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey), the project proposal includes six Central Asian republics as well as Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.