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The 59th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank in Samarkand is an event whose significance extends far beyond Uzbekistan. Formally, it is a major international financial forum bringing together government representatives, finance ministers, central bank governors, international organizations, businesses, investors, and development institutions.
Yet in political and economic terms, the Samarkand meeting may become an important signal for Central Asia as a whole: the region is…