Recently, India virtually hosted the second meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue.
An additional USD 1 billion Line of Credit has been given by India for the Central Asian countries.
The first meeting of the dialogue was held in Samarkand, the Republic of Uzbekistan in January 2019.
It is a ministerial-level dialogue between India and the Central Asian countries namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
All five nations became independent states after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, post-Cold war.
All the countries participating in the dialogue, except for Turkmenistan, are also members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.