(MENAFN- Wadsam) The Central Asian nations of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan adopted the Ashgabat
Initiative on the reduction of barriers to trade and transport in the region.
The adoption of the initiative was part of the Days of the
United Nations Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) held
Nov. 18-21 in the Turkmen capital.
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe (UNECE) report, this initiative will reduce barriers to trade and
transport using UN legal instruments, standards and recommendations,
significantly increasing interconnectivity in the region.
Established in 1998, SPECA is a country-owned and
country-driven program for the land-locked economies of Central Asia, supported
by two United Nations Regional Commissions: the Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP).
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