DUSHANBE, August 8, Asia-Plus – A collection of papers that were delivered at the Khujand conference on Central Asian integration processes has been presented in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 

We will recall that a three-day conference formally entitled “Schemes of Cooperation and Integration for Central Asia: Comparative Analysis, Opportunities and Perspectives” was held in the Tajik northern city of Khujand on June 26-28.  Experts from Central Asia’s states, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, France and Pakistan attended the conference in Khujand.    

Kyrgyzstan’s political scientist Aleksandr Knyazev and the Moscow Institute for Central Asia and Caucasus director Andrey Medvedev presented the collection in the Kyrgyz capital ahead of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the website www.knyazev.org said.

The collection contains articles about the modern notion of Central Asia, assessments of the present situation in the region made by representatives of different academic schools and analytical institutes.