... potential is no less important. Notably, its cooperation on security issues in the region has intensified in recent years. Thus, Kazakhstan took part in the first ever joint SCO and CIS anti-terrorist exercises in Eurasia in 2023, in parallel with joint exercises ... ... following the summit in New Delhi, the SCO member states adopted a declaration where they advocated for the establishment of Afghanistan as an independent, united and neutral state. However, in practice, it is too early to speak of any final solution ...
... By May of this year, according to the Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan, the US should withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. While this event could reshape Russia’s role in the region, the agreement between the Taliban and Washington seems ... ... Uzbekistan left the CSTO in 2012 [
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The Russian presence in terms of military bases is mainly part of the Soviet heritage. Kazakhstan is the country with the largest number of diversified military facilities. Near Lake Balkhash lies the anti-ballistic ...
The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations’ Report
Central Asia stands out as a comparatively “nontoxic” region where there are limited, but not insignificant, opportunities for U.S.-Russia collaboration both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks: in the space industry, civil security, job-creation mechanisms and rural human capital, and knowledge sharing for instance. Any proposal of U.S.-Russia cooperation in a concrete domain will have to be made in a tri- or-multipartite...
... place in Beijing on the eve of the Qingdao summit. However, serious interest in increasing the SCO’s activities regarding Afghanistan expressed at the meetings has not yet been substantively documented (as a result of which the Declaration merely “summed ... ... interaction among the participants in the process shortly before the Qingdao summit was a significant event in this respect. Kazakhstan has also acted in a similar vein, agreeing to integrate the One Belt One Road into its Nurly Zhol New Economic Policy....
... depends on how much the real development of events in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will correspond to the declared course.
At the same time, the administration of D. Trump is quite serious about countering terrorism and remains active in this direction in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. According to the former director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS) E. Karina, this is perhaps the main convergence of the interests of the U.S. and Central Asian states
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. According to the Soufan Group, about 2,000 militants from Central Asian countries are fighting ...
