The European Council has adopted “The EU and Central Asia: Strategy for a New Partnership” in June 2007 and the first progress report [45 KB] followed in June 2008. The Strategy strengthens bilateral and regional relations in all areas of cooperation.

The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the Kyrgyz Republic has provided the legal framework for EU-Kyrgyz bilateral relations since it entered into force in1999.

The future EC assistance will focus on the following priority areas: rural development and poverty reduction, support to social, political, judicial and market reforms, and regulatory reforms in the energy sector.

The overall EU co-operation objectives, policy responses and priority fields for Central Asia can be found in the EC Regional Strategy Paper for Central Asia 2007-2013 [277 KB] and Central Asia Indicative Programme 2007-2010 [443 KB] . In addition to the assistance under the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) , the Kyrgyz Republic participates in several ongoing regional and thematic programmes.

 

• Central Asia Multi-annual Indicative Programme (2011-2013) of the EU Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI) [327 KB] (April 2010)