Central Asia eager to cooperate with the EU ‘as a bloc’
The leaders of five Central Asian countries were all eager to show the importance of strengthening relations with the European Union but also the importance of their economies and potentials for Europe at the first EU-CA summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
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The leaders of five Central Asian countries were all eager to show the importance of strengthening relations with the European Union but also the importance of their economies and potentials for Europe at the first EU-CA summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/05/central-asia-eager-to-cooperate-with-the-eu-as-a-bloc
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00:00Two main messages resonated through all the speeches of Central Asian leaders on this summit.
00:05One was that they demonstrated once more that the region achieved prosperity, stability, good neighborly relations and harmonious approach to further development.
00:15And that the European Union recognized so by speaking to them as if they were a kind of a block, which gave them more weight on the international arena.
00:24The main conclusion for us is that now Central Asia is perceived as a single whole.
00:38Central Asia is a reliable bridge between China, Southeast Asia and Europe, as well as a reliable supplier of necessary materials.
00:49We are talking about uranium, oil, gas, biocritical materials, food products, wheat.
00:56The second is that the Central Asian leaders on this summit, they eagerly embrace all the forms of cooperation proposed to them by the European leaders on the summit,
01:05because they saw it as a way to further development.