ORGANIZATIONS AND ALLIANCES IN CENTRAL ASIA: OOPERATION PROSPECTS AS SEEN FROM MOSCOW AND LONDON
Abstract
Between 29 April and 1 May, 2008 we attended an international conference that discussed Central Asian security issues. Political scientists and politicians from 17 countries and several international structures gathered in Tashkent for this highly representative forum to assess the already obvious threats to Central Asian security; discuss the new and less obvious threats and challenges; and outline potential cooperation trends aimed at ensuring regional security in the 21st century.
The authors, who by citizenship belong to the member states of “organizations and alliances that follow different vectors,” have taken the trouble of showing the road toward their countries’ potential partnership in the key regional stability spheres. They deliberately avoided agitation and propaganda either of the “pro-Russian” or “pro-Western” security vectors in Central Asia to insist that cooperation rather than rivalry among the main actors present in the region can finally produce a security system that will meet the national interests of the regional states and of the world community as a whole. This is an economically justified and civilized pattern of international relations.
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By the Central Asian Region the authors mean the part of Asia occupied by land-locked countries: the Central Asian
sub-region (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) as well as their neighbors: Kazakhstan in the north,
Mongolia in the east, and Afghanistan in the south.
See: R.N. McDermott, Yu. Morozov, “GUAM-NATO Cooperation: Russian Perspectives on the Strategic Balance
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For more detail, see: N. Omarov, “The Century of Global Alternative: A New Security Expanse in Post-Soviet
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On 8 July, 2004 CSTO Secretary-General N. Bordiuzha sent a letter to NATO Secretary General Jaap Hoop Scheffer
in which he outlined the main spheres of a dialogue and cooperation between the two organizations.
The EAPC format is used as a forum at which Central Asian countries and Russia can exchange opinions with
NATO members. It does not presuppose concrete military-political steps on the issues on which the sides previously
agreed.
The CSTO peacekeepers will be used in three main regimes: the main one within the CSTO framework; the second, and no less important, within the CIS, if approved by the U.N. Security Council and the states involved in the conflict;
and the global regime, at the U.N.’s request.
This agreement was reached at the Rome meeting on 28 May, 2002.
Political Aspects of a Generic Concept of Joint NATO-Russia Peacekeeping Operations. Annex 1.
See: [http://www.ca-c.org/journal/cac-09-2000/13.Musaev].
See: V.A. Moiseev, Rossia-Kazakhstan: sovremennye mify i istoricheskaia real’nost’, Barnaul, 2001, p. 116.
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