Brussels: The European Union and the Central Asian countries will hold a summit in the first half of 2024, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
“I welcome … today’s discussion. This will be continued at the EU-Central Asia Summit that will be held in the first half of the next year,” Borrell told a press conference after the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, where a meeting of European ministers with representatives of Central Asian countries also took place.
On the same day, the Council of the European Union said that participants of the meeting agreed to increase cooperation between the EU and Central Asia.
“Participants stressed the need to intensify cooperation on sustainable connectivity between the EU and Central Asia in the areas of trade, transport, energy, digital and people-to-people contacts, building on the projects announced at the EU-Central Asia Connectivity Conference, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 18 November 2022,” the Council of the EU said in a statement.
The statement added that the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and EU member states, as well as the EU foreign policy chief, participated in the meeting.
