20/September/2022   Actual

View from the USA: Uzbekistan has engaged like never before with the outer world

WASHINGTON, September 20. /“Dunyo” IA/. The founder and chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, professor Frederick Starr commented on the results of the Samarkand SCO Summit for the “Dunyo” IA.

- In addition, to building up its own resources so successfully over the last generation, Uzbekistan has always looked to its neighbors. It's passed through complicated times and that's relations in the region. However, under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the doors have been open wide, and Uzbekistan has engaged like never before with the outer world. So, this is an important part of Uzbekistan's opening the windows, and it's a very productive one.

Congratulations! I am looking forward to the next steps, which might be the creation of more specific structures within Central Asia to assure and develop cooperation and coordination among those countries in Central Asia.