Central Asian Scripts

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

Central Asian rail development

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 Central Asian countries have also signed regional and bilateral agreements designed to harmonize their transport legislation and procedures.

To facilitate the conduct of measures to strengthen and develop humanitarian contacts between nationals of the Central Asian countries.

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

Box 3. Some possible elements of a transit transport framework agreement between Central Asian countries and their transit transport neighbours

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

2. Asian countries

(3) Special Technical Assistance Programme for Central Asian Republics

Scores of others had fled to neighbouring central Asian republics and to other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Five Asian countries most affected by the Asian crisis

The Group also welcomes the decision by all five Central Asian States to sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty as soon as possible.

Colombia (potential production 4,100 tonnes), Mexico (around 3,650 tonnes), African countries south of the Sahara and the central Asian countries are also major producers of herbal cannabis.

17. As a result of various initiatives in recent years, the Central Asian countries have a growing number of alternative transit routes.

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

The five Central Asian States concluded their seven year negotiations and adopted the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty and the attached Protocol on 8 February 2005.

In Central Asian countries, the proportion of primary heroin users among those seeking drug treatment commonly ranges between 60 and 95 per cent.

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

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.

Similar support was provided to 15 South and Central American countries, to Gulf States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as well as to four East Asian countries.

In 2004, a new website on Central Asian mountains was launched.

Central Asian External and Transit Transport Initiative rebuilding the silk road

Training programme on legal aspects of debt management (Central Asian republics)

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.

The Central Asian countries have acceded to some of these international legal instruments and continue to examine the possibility of acceding to many more.

SPECA was launched by the Presidents of four Central Asian countries and the Executive Secretaries of ECE and ESCAP at Tashkent in March 1998.

In the mid 1990s, more reports of heroin seizures were also registered from central European and Asian CIS countries, rising from 13 countries reporting in 1993 to 18 in 1995.

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

4. Central Asian external trade and transit initiative rebuilding the Silk Road

4. Central Asian external trade and transit initiative rebuilding the silk road

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

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.

Asian countries were also active at the regional level, where a series of meetings greatly strengthened cooperation among Asian countries.

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