Central Asian Cross-Border Cooperation
摘要
Central Asia, as a region, took its current shape in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. The decision to formally designate the region as “Central Asia” was made in January 1993 during a meeting in Tashkent, where representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan agreed to replace the Soviet-era term “Middle Asia and Kazakhstan” (“Sredniaia Aziia i Kazakhstan”).