The 4th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia ended in the Issyk-Kul state residence of the President of Kyrgyzstan.
It was attended by the leaders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan — Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Emomali Rahmon, Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Sadyr Japarov.
The outcome of the negotiations was the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation. The document should lay the foundation for the rapprochement of the countries of the region outside the framework of the EAEU.
The five states of the region will be obliged to resolve disputed issues within the framework of the agreement and exclusively through dialogue, including through the creation of appropriate mechanisms for interaction, if necessary.
The parties also approved a roadmap for the implementation of the agreement for a period of two years — 2022-2024. The next, 5th Consultative Meeting will be held in the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, in the summer of 2023.
The first Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia was held in Nur-Sultan (2018), the second — in Tashkent (2019). In 2020, the summit was planned to be held in Kyrgyzstan, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was postponed for a year. Turkmenistan hosted the third meeting in August 2021.
