EU and Central Asian are set for historic new impulse in their relationship, Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Edil Baisalov told Euronews, as the two regions' leaders convened more than 5,000 kilometres away in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for the first EU–Central Asia Summit.
Baisalov was interviewed in Strasbourg where he was meeting MEPs and the Council of Europe to promote closer cooperation between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Central Asian states, which he described as the future “tiger economies” of the region.
