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"en.20111215.23.4-272-500"2
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"The strategic importance of Central Asia cannot be underestimated. These vast but comparatively underdeveloped moderate Muslim countries have crucial energy and mineral (including uranium) reserves that remain central to the EU’s energy security: Turkmenistan provides an outlet for gas flow across the Caspian Sea and into the European continent. Geopolitically, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan provide land transport corridors for troop transit to support the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. I strongly agree with the Kiil-Nielsen focus on environmental policy – in Uzbekistan, for example, decades of Soviet environmental mismanagement for purposes of cotton growing have damaged the Aral Sea, and in mountainous Tajikistan, soil erosion through deforestation for agricultural development has led to desertification. A good and sustainable water management policy is indispensible for development in the region. The report also suggests measures to strengthen civil society and the rule of law and human rights, which acts as complementary to the socio-economic development strategy advocated by the report. I was pleased to vote in favour."@en1
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