The Gazette of Central Asia

What Erdogan Wants

Babak KHANDANI — 2020-03-13T16:30:00Z

While the world lives in the midst of Coronavirus Dooms Day, Erdogan seems to be inhabiting another planet, totally spared by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, Turkey reported its first case of infection only this past Tuesday, and at the time of writing, just five cases of infection have been officially recorded. So Turkey seems to be a safe haven, and its leader could therefore have his hands free for his Ottoman adventures by attacking both Russia (through Syria) and Europe (through (...)

- Misc / Turkey, EU, COVID-19, Syrian Conflict

EU, Uzbekistan Meet at Brussels

Catherine BISSON-SERIAN — 2017-07-17T12:32:23Z

BRUSSELS — The European Union and Uzbekistan are to hold the highest-level political meeting in Brussels since the death of Islam Karimov in 2016. During the visit, the Uzbek delegation is expected to hold bilateral negotiations with foreign ministers from the EU and Belgium. According to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, the meeting will be held July 17and the Uzbekistan's delegation will be headed by Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser, whose country holds (...)

- Uzbekistan / EU

EU Emphasises on CO2 Emission Targets

Nazar TAMASHEVSKA — 2017-06-12T14:41:00Z

EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič gave the following speech at the Energy Ministerial in Astana. He leads the project team Energy Union, Establishing a European Energy Union by connecting infrastructures, enforcing legislation and increasing competition to help drive down costs for citizens and businesses and boost growth. Honourable ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank Kazakhstan for hosting the Energy Ministerial Conference Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable (...)

- Kazakhstan / EU

EU's Foreign-Policy Chief Visiting Central Asia

2012-11-26T12:50:00Z

BRUXELL (EU press service) – Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission, travels to Central Asia this week. She will start the visit in Kyrgyzstan, where she will chair the EU-Central Asia Ministerial meeting in Bishkek on Tuesday, 27 November, before continuing to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan over the following three days. Speaking ahead of her trip, Catherine Ashton said: The EU is playing an (...)

- Misc / EU