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Analyses | | Daria Zielińska

US–Central Asia summit raw materials and declarations

On 6 November President Donald Trump received the presidents of the five Central Asian states at the White House. This was the second summit of the C5+1 format, established in 2015, to be held at the level of heads of state and the first…
Analyses | | Marcin Popławski

EU–Central Asia summit in Samarkand the economy comes first

The first European Union-Central Asia summit was held in Samarkand on 3–4 April, bringing together the heads of EU institutions and the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The EU was represented…
Analyses | | Marcin Popławski

Central Asia a region without border disputes

On 8 January, the heads of government from Kyrgyzstan (Adylbek Kasymaliev), Tajikistan (Qohir Rasulzoda), and Uzbekistan (Abdulla Aripov) held talks aimed at finalising the settlement of border issues near the tri-border area in the…
OSW Commentary | | Zuzanna Krzyżanowska

On the trail of the grey wolf pan-Turkism in Turkeys foreign policy

Ankara’s active policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia is linked among other things with pan-Turkism, an idea which advocates the integration of the Turkic nations. It is continuously present in the political culture of the Turkish state…
OSW Commentary | | Marcin Popławski

Crisis as an opportunity A new stage in EU-Central Asia relations

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the European Union’s approach to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). Over the last two years, it has become more important for the EU to maintain this…
Analyses | | Lidia Gibadło, Marcin Popławski

The Central Asian Five in Berlin time for a strategic partnership

The first leaders’ summit in the Central Asia-Federal Republic of Germany (C5+RFN) format took place in Berlin on 29 September. The five leaders of the region met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, both as a…
Analyses | | Michał Bogusz, Marcin Popławski

The China–Central Asia Summit Beijing is still forced to cooperate with Moscow

On 17–19 May, the city of Xi’an in China hosted the second summit of the leaders of five Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (the first of…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Uzbekistan normalisation of relations with neighbours

24 grudnia prezydent Kirgistanu Ałmazbek Atambajew złożył wizytę w Uzbekistanie.
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Ethnic and border tension between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

On 6 January, a major border incident took place on the frontier of Sokh, an Uzbek exclave in Kyrgyzstan. People from the Uzbek village of Hushar attacked a newly built Kyrgyz border watchtower and then entered Kyrgyz territory. As a…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Strachota

The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The twelfth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place on 6-7 June in Beijing. The summit was attended by the presidents of the organisation’s member states: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and…