CAREC At a Glance

  • Over $51 billion invested in transport, trade, and energy projects, as of December 2023

CAREC Operational Clusters

Economic & Financial Stability
Trade Tourism & Economic Corridors
Infrastructure & Economic Connectivity
Agriculture & Water
Human Development
Cross-cutting Themes

Latest Events

Accession of Turkmenistan to the World Trade Organization: Technical Working Sessions on the Memorandum of Foreign Trade Regime – Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Trade in Services, and Trade Agreements

Accession of Turkmenistan to the World Trade Organization: Technical Working Sessions on the Memorandum of Foreign Trade Regime – Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Trade in Services, and Trade Agreements

On 4-8 March 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat led the technical sessions on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Trade in Services and Trade Agreements, which form part of the Memorandum of the Foreign Trade Regime (MFTR). The completion of the MFTR is crucial to starting Turkmenistan’s WTO accession negotiations. Over 40 participants […]

Meeting of the Joint Meeting of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz ABEC Working Group on Tourism  Development

Meeting of the Joint Meeting of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz ABEC Working Group on Tourism Development

Under the Almaty-Bishkek Economic Corridor (ABEC), back-to-back meetings of the Transport and Infrastructure Development Working Group and the Tourism Working Group gathered officials from Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic in Almaty on 27 and 28 February 2024 respectively. Transformative regional investment projects like the Almaty-Issyk-Kul Alternative Road PPP project, Almaty-Bishkek E-bus project, the ABEC Regional Improvement of Border Services […]

Meeting of the Joint Meeting of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz ABEC Working Group on Transport and Infrastructure Development

Meeting of the Joint Meeting of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz ABEC Working Group on Transport and Infrastructure Development

Under the Almaty-Bishkek Economic Corridor (ABEC), back-to-back meetings of the Transport and Infrastructure Development Working Group and the Tourism Working Group gathered officials from Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic in Almaty on 27 and 28 February 2024 respectively. Transformative regional investment projects like the Almaty-Issyk-Kul Alternative Road PPP project, Almaty-Bishkek E-bus project, the ABEC Regional Improvement of Border Services project, […]

Virtual Regional Workshop on Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Program – Enhancement and Sustainability

Virtual Regional Workshop on Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Program – Enhancement and Sustainability

The Virtual Regional Workshop on the Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Program – Enhancement and Sustainability is intended to provide the participants from CAREC Member Countries with the opportunity to benefit from a more dynamic AEO program by developing and applying advanced compliance management systems in the implementation of the AEO program. The workshop brings together […]

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