TOKYO -- Recent moves toward closer integration in Central Asia, 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, are likely to attract economic cooperation and investment in the strategically important region.
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Leaders of the five Central Asian countries meet with European Union leaders in Uzbekistan on April 4. (Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office via AP)
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