The Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) is an international organization, composed of five member-states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. Observer status has been given to Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine.

It began in 1994 under the name of Central Asian Economic Union or CAEU and included Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as members. In 1998 it was then renamed Central Asian Economic Cooperation with the entry of Tajikistan. In 2002 it was renamed yet again to what we know it now, the Central Asian Cooperation Organization or CACO. In 2004, Russia joined the organization.

The objective of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization is to enchance “the development of the economic integration in the region, the perfection of the forms and mechanisms of expansion of the political, social, scientific-technical, cultural and educational relations” among its members.

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