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.

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

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.

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

They share Western concerns about a revival of the Afghan Taliban and their potential support for extremist Islamist movements in other Central Asian countries. Indeed, all five of the post Soviet Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have been targeted by Muslim extremist organizations linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda.

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.

Regional and subregional workshops were conducted for Central Asian and neighbouring countries, Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for several countries of South Eastern Europe, Latin America, West Africa, Eastern African members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and Portuguese speaking countries.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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. Growth could easily slow following the next energy price slump or other external shock, such as proposals in Russia to limit employment and remittance opportunities for Central Asian workers there.

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

At the regional level, offices had been opened in the Pacific and Central Asian regions.

The work carried out in this context includes several regional projects in the countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA), the Mekong Delta region, South Asian LDCs and Central America.

In decision XVI 38, the Parties decided to include Eastern European and Central Asian countries within the rotation of the seventh seat for Article 5 Partiescountry seat on the Executive Committee.

The imports from Asian countries have expanded recently.

An inventory of Central Asian NGOs active in drug abuse and HIV AIDS prevention was produced.

In decision XVI 38, the Parties decided to include Eastern European and Central Asian countries within the rotation of the seventh seat, for Parties operating under Article 5, on the Executive Committee.

Media preferences among youth in four Central Asian countries were studied and published in a brochure, based on which new media prevention and awareness raising measures could be tailored to and conducted.

The agreement of Governments of Central Asian States, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation to start preparatory work for a Central Asian Regional Information Coordination Centre (CARICC) in 2005 has laid the foundation for improving law enforcement cooperation throughout the region and beyond.

First, we must respond to the requests of Eastern European and Central Asian countries aimed at reducing their excess stocks of small arms and light weapons and ammunition resulting from the cold war.

November brought the 125th anniversary of the Tashkent and Central Asian eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 2001, the Tashkent and Central Asian eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated its 130th anniversary.

He mentioned of the proposal of Kazakhstan on the establishment of a Union of Central Asian States.

Other than in oil producing countries, development in West Asian countries has been disappointing.

We have the honour to transmit herewith the text of the Tashkent statement of representatives of Central Asian States on the establishment of a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia, adopted at the United Nations sponsored meeting on the Central Asian nuclear weapon free zone, held on 8 February 2005 in Tashkent (see annex).

Regionally, Sri Lanka compared well with the South Asian countries but it lagged behind the dynamic South East Asian economies.

Some of the formerly colonized Asian countries have done likewise.

Reiterate their earnest desire to sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty as soon as possible.

Reiterate their earnest desire to sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty as soon as possible.