In his recent article "Central Asia on the threshold of a new era," Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev states, βWe are not building walls, we are building bridges.β These days, as Central Asia transforms into a new hub of attraction, it is not difficult to grasp the meaning behind Mirziyoyevβs words. He himself emphasizes in the article, βuntil only a few years ago, disputes over borders, water and energy among Central Asian statesβ were among the most prominent issues in the international relations literature.
Just as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the EUβs earliest form, turned a coal and steel dispute into a binding force on April 18, 1951, the countries of Central Asia have also built unity upon the very issues over which they once disagreed. From the Khujand Declaration of March 2025, where Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan resolved their border disput
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