“dialogue, Understanding and Harmony, Leading to Tolerance and Respect”

The most striking characteristic of all five Central Asian Republics is their relatively new appearance on the international scene as independent actors. None of them had an experience as an independent/sovereign state, they had no state structures and mechanisms as such and more over their peoples had no sense of statehood. It is not easy to achieve all these in two generations, whereas other countries have covered this road in centuries. Looking to the region from this perspective, I have to admit that the distance they covered since 1990’s is impressive, but not enough. More could have been done.