(Journal Article) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a late arrival on the Central Asian scene: alt-hough it recognized the independence of the post-Soviet republics in 1992, diplo-matic and trade relations have been slow to take off. Turkmenistan waited until 2011 to open an embassy there, Kazakh-stan until 2006,1 while Kyrgyzstan, Uz-bekistan, and Tajikistan have only opened consulates. The Emirates–Central Asian partnership began to blossom only in the second half of the 2000s, which saw an increasing number of official vis-its by both sides. […]
Central Asia Economic Paper, No. 5, November 2012
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