IRNA
December 27

Leaders of member-countries of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization urge the world community to abide by the decision of the Tokyo conference to give financial aid to Afghanistan.

The joint communique passed by the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the fourth meeting of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization in Astana on Friday says that the presidents express support for the policy of Afghanistan's central government headed by Karzai.

It meanwhile urges the world community to give attention to the need of an early implementation of the decisions of the Tokyo conference to give financial aid for Afghanistan's restoration.

The heads of state stressed that one of the foreign policy priorities is to continue cooperation to create a sustainable system of regional security and economic integration as a most important way of ensuring stability and consolidating mutual understanding in the region.

The communique also stresses the importance of joint measures to fight illegal narcotics trafficking and the need to device mechanisms of close cooperation to resolve this problem.

The presidents of the four member countries of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization recognized the vital importance of fighting trans-border crime and the need in this connection for the interaction of border, customs and tax services of member countries of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization.

They also asked for adopting appropriate measures to draw up a multilateral agreements on those matters.

The heads of states noted in their communique the importance of interaction of the member countries of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization in the framework of international organizations on topical questions of international politics, including the further advance of the process to promote the creation of a nuclear-free zone in Central Asia.

The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will fly for their countries upon the conclusion of the meeting, Tass learned from the press service of Kazakhstan's president.

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