Creating Central Asian common market plays crucial role in fostering regional integration processes. It was stressed by Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, at the meeting of the Central Asian Cooperation organisation held in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on 18 October 2004.

The Central Asian countries are exposed to an increasingly vulnerable situation in the face of alarming raise in cultivation and production of drugs in Afghanistan.

The experience of developed countries on formation of parliament was discussed during the two-day international conference entitled \"Parliamentarism: experience of foreign countries\" held in Tashkent on 30 September ? 1 October.