Modi visits Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for regional and multilateral diplomacy

…that perception. In a speech given at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University in Nur Sultan, addressed to the “people of Central Asia”, Mr. Modi had then promised that India would rebuild connectivity to the region. “ In an age of globalisation, Asia cannot remain fragmented. And Central Asia cannot remain distant and disconnected from India ,” he said. Since 2012, when the previous Manmohan Singh government had launched the ‘Connect Central Asia’ policy, there had been considerable hope that more trade, travel, and pipelines would follow. However, while…