R. ANDREESHEV, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Second Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The new Central Asian States, like all the republics of the former USSR, faced similar difficulties during their independence. This is, first of all, a break in the established production and economic ties and, as a result, a decline in production, high inflation and rising prices, and impoverishment of the population. One of the main ways out of this situation, according to their leaders, was to join various international organizations, as well as to develop ties with Western countries. However, hopes for serious economic assistance from both these organizations and the West quickly faded. As a result, the leadership of the Central Asian republics (CA) realized that to solve common problems, it is necessary to comprehensively expand regional cooperation. However, it soon became clear that such cooperation poses new problems for young states, which are impossible to solve alone, and extremely difficult to solve together. Examples include the reconstruction of the Aral Sea and the allocation of limited water resources. Nevertheless, the ideas of Central Asian integration are not only not" set aside", but are being further developed, especially since there are objective geographical, historical, ethnic, confessional and economic prerequisites for this integration. HOW THE CENTRAL WAS FORMED In January 1994, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on the creation of a single economic space, the purpose of which was to coordinate actions in the budget, tax, price, customs, currency and other areas. According to articles 3 and 4 of this Treaty, the main tasks in forming the Single Economic Space are:: - creating the necessary legal, economic and organizational conditions for the free movement of capital and labor, ensuring the development of direct economic ties and industrial cooperation between the economic entities of the parties, promotin ... Читать далее