The UK’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron plans to visit the countries of Central Asia, he said at the parliamentary debates on March 5.
“We have equally surged to seek to strengthen our network of alliances and partnerships around the world. Let me reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, that central Asia is one of those networks in which we want to do better. I am planning a visit there. I will be holding a round table with anyone who knows the industries, business, voluntary bodies and educational organisations that we should be talking to there,” he said.
In December 2023, the UK government announced the plan to hold a summit in 2024 in the C5+1 format with its counterparts from Central Asian countries. In a report submitted to the UK’s Parliament, the authors criticized the ineffective cooperation of UK government with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and also called for more active resistance to the influence of Russia and China in the region.
