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First India Central Asia Summit

On January 27, 2022, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi convened the first India-Central Asia Summit in virtual configuration, which was attended by the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

This was the first India central Asia summit which put on the 30th commemoration of the two nations’ political ties.

Head of state Modi and the heads of Central Asia examined the subsequent stages in pushing India-Central Asia ties higher than ever at the Summit. The Leaders chose in a historic move to institutionalise the Summit cycle by deciding to conduct it like clockwork. They likewise chose to have continuous gatherings of Foreign Ministers, Trade Ministers, Culture Ministers, and Security Council Secretaries to lay the reason for the Summit. A secretariat for India and Central Asia will be laid out in New Delhi to help with the new design.

A Key Note On First India Central Asia Summit

  1. The Prime Minister of India congratulated Central Asian pioneers on their 30th commemoration of state freedom. Central Asian pioneers said thanks to India’s Prime Minister on the country’s 75th commemoration of autonomy. The Parties chose to coordinate occasions to honour the 30th commemoration of the laying out of political relations between Central Asia and India, including the printing of joint postal stamps.
  2. The Leaders anticipated fostering a long-term, extensive, and solid India-Central Asia collaboration given common trust, understanding, and kinship, reviewing the extremely old personal civilizational, social, business, and individual-to-individual ties among India and Central Asian nations.
  3. The Leaders adulated the first India-Central Asia Summit and concluded that it should be held like clockwork. They concluded that in addition to the India-Central Asia Dialog at the degree of Foreign Ministers, the Ministers of Trade and Culture would meet at ordinary spans to propel cooperation in these sectors. They likewise chose to keep the Security Council Secretaries meeting consistently to audit security improvements nearby. The Central Asian pioneers invited India’s offer to construct an “India – Central Asia Centre” in New Delhi, which could act as the Summit’s secretariat.
  4. The Leaders lauded the collaboration among India’s and Central Asia’s parliaments as a fundamental stage for discourse between the two nations’ governing bodies. They underscored the plan’s significance in the layout of an ‘India-Central Asia Parliamentary Forum.’

The First Chronology Of Central Asia

  • Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan are the five previous Soviet nations that makeup Central Asia. Contingent upon whether phonetic family connects the nations, location, horseman-travelling traditions, or sharing the “stan” addition, western China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, south-central Russia, and Mongolia are often included. Since many individuals who dwell there communicate in Turkic dialects, the centre of five Central Asian nations, as well as western China (Xinjiang), are regularly alluded to as Turkestan (Turkistan). Additionally, utilised is the expression “Internal Asia.” Tibet and Manchuria are incorporated, concentrating on individuals with horseman-itinerant customs.
  • Central Asia has long filled in as a connection between Asia and Europe, where the Eurasia steppe meets. Because of its connections to the Silk Road, the Great Game, and societies and individuals that Westerners are new to, the region has long been viewed as outlandish. The unavailability of the region during the Soviet time frame only added to this disgrace.
  • With steppes in the north and extreme deserts in the south, Asia is generally a dry landlocked region. The east and southeast are overwhelmed by great mountains, especially the Tien Sien and Pamirs. High levels encircle the mountains. The region’s streams are taken care of by softening snow and icy masses, and they structure huge valleys and gorges. Numerous huge rural regions are flooded, with the old qanat arrangement of underground waterways being utilised. Cotton, melons, rice, and vegetables are immeasurably significant harvests. Sheep, goats, and ponies are grouped in the good countries and steppes. Enormous stores of oil, flammable gas, gold, aluminium, and other important minerals are thrown about the region.

 The First Indian Ruler To Invade Central Asia

The Indian heads Chandragupta Maurya and Kanishka both invaded Central Asia. Kanishka was the first Indian ruler to control land beyond India. In the second hundred years, Kanishka was the famous monarch of the Kunshan tradition. He ruled over all of northern India and sections of Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Chandragupta Maurya was an Indian monarch who laid out the Maurya domain, which immediately became throughout the greater part of India and into advanced Pakistan.

At the point when Alexander the Great passed on in 323 BCE, his officers split his domain into satrapies with the goal that every one of them would have an area to make due; however, Chandragupta Maurya crushed and integrated his realm to the limits of what is currently Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan by around 316.

The Concept Of Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that runs from the Caspian Sea to China and Mongolia in the east and from Afghanistan and Iran to Russia in the north. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are previous Soviet nations that make up the area.

The huge green steppes of Kazakhstan in the north and the Aral Sea waste bowl in the south discrete Central Asia’s topography. The Karakum Desert, which covers the majority of Turkmenistan, and the Kyzylkum Desert, which covers a lot of western Uzbekistan, represent around 60% of the region.

Besides along the edges of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya stream frameworks, which thread their direction north westward through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, eastern Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan after ascending mountain reaches to the south and east, the majority of the dry terrains are unsatisfactory for horticultural use.

Conclusion

The first India-Central Asia summit was held on January 27, 2022, to honour 30 years of conciliatory relations between the two nations. The Summit was India’s first gathering with the Central Asian Republics at the most elevated level. This strengthening of ties happened following the third India-Central Asia Dialog held in December 2021 at the degree of unfamiliar priests. The causes fundamental to New Delhi’s new expanded enthusiasm for manufacturing, further ties with Central Asia and strengthening economic and security cooperation are analysed in this review.

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