Past Events

CAREC Senior Officials’ Meeting (April 2005)

Participants reviewed the progress made since the Third Ministerial Conference on CAREC held in Astana, Kazakhstan on November 2004 and the work plans for the four priority sectors: transport, trade facilitation, trade policy, and energy.

CAREC Senior Officials’ Meeting (September 2004)

Participants (i) discussed the progress made since the Second Ministerial Conference on CAREC held in November 2003 in Tashkent; (ii) reported on the sector outcomes in each of the priority areas of energy, trade facilitation, trade policy, and transport; (iii) made recommendations on certain issues for ministerial consideration and guidance; and (iv) discussed preparations for the Third Ministerial Conference.

CAREC Senior Officials’ Meeting (April 2004)

Participants discussed (i) the progress made since the Second Ministerial Conference on CAREC in each of the priority areas of energy, trade facilitation, and transport; (ii) ways of strengthening the overall institutional framework, including the establishment of a sector coordinating committee for trade policy; and (iii) preparations for the Third Ministerial Conference on CAREC scheduled in the fourth quarter of this year.

Regional Preparatory Meeting on CAREC

The Regional Preparatory Meeting was a key step in the preparation of the coming Second Ministerial Conference on CAREC to be held in the same venue on 11-12 November 2003. Senior officials from member countries of the regional cooperation program and observers from invited multilateral institutions participated in the meeting.

CAREC Senior Officials’ Meeting (August 2001)

More specifically, the participants discussed and confirmed (i) the priority areas ADB should concentrate on in facilitating regional cooperation, (ii) the institutional framework that would best serve implementation of the ADB program, and (iii) preparations for a Ministerial Conference scheduled 5–9 November 2001 in Urumqi, People's Republic of China.