An annual working meeting of Steering Committees established under Border Cooperation component of the UNODC Programme for Central Asia was held in CARICC from 11th to 12th of December, 2018.
The working meeting drew together representatives of border guard agencies, customs services, ministries of internal and foreign affairs, of the Republic of Kazakhstan, of the Kyrgyz Republic, of the Republic of Tajikistan, of Turkmenistan, of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as experts from the OSCE, UNODC Programme Offices in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and CARICC.
During the meeting, delegations provided information on implementation of the Border Cooperation component of the UNODC Programme for Central Asia and its impact on the situation in border security and cross-border cooperation in the region, on the activities of centers established for coordination and monitoring of border liaison offices.
CARICC presented on practical relevance of the Centre as part of implementation of the Border Cooperation component of the UNODC Programme for Central Asia.
Towards the conclusion, parties defined priorities of competent authorities of Central Asian states in the field of state border protection and development of cross-border interaction, and made recommendations for further development of the component of the UNODC Programme with active involvement of CARICC.

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Zh. Suleimenov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan met with D. Nazarmukhamedov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan in a working meeting in the premises of CARICC on December 11th, 2018.
CARICC briefed delegations on main directions of the Centre’s work and discussed issues of cooperation with competent bodies in countering drug smuggling.
Upon the conclusion, the parties expressed intention to further strengthen and develop cooperation in combating drug trafficking.

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Between December 3 and 5, 2018 CARICC took part in a joint workshop on typologies of the Eurasian (EAG) and Asia-Pacific (APG) groups (networks) on countering money laundering in Novosibirsk (Russia).
The event was attended by: 1) delegations from the EAG Member States: Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; 2) delegations from the APG Member States: Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, East Timor, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Pakistan, Korea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan; 3) international organizations: FATF, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, Interpol, CARICC; 4) private sector: representatives of the banking sector, non-governmental organizations regulating financial technologies.
During the event, representatives of the EAG and APG member states presented and exchanged experience based on examples of practices in the area of combating money laundering and financing of terrorism.
The event resulted in participants developing appropriate recommendations on countering laundering of criminal proceeds using virtual assets, financing of terrorism and human trafficking during work in three sections.

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G. Pustovitov, Director of CARICC, held a working meeting with J. Callahan, Senior Law Enforcement Program Advisor of the United States’ Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs on 3rd of December, 2018. Also attending the meeting were M. Karpenkopf, Attache of the US Ministry of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration’s Regional Office in Almaty and R. Pitts, Head of UNODC Programme Office in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the course of the meeting, parties discussed prospects for expansion of geography of the Centre through accession of interested states as full participants and observers, CARICC funding, as well as rotation of deputy directors of the Center.
The Center delivered a presentation on the work in the field of information analysis.
Following the results of the meeting, parties reached an agreement on further cooperation and interaction.

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