The 14th meeting of the Working Group on Trade of the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) has been conducted under the leadership of the Republic of Tajikistan

On November 19, 2019, the 14th meeting of the of the Working Group on Trade of the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, under the leadership of the First Deputy Economic Development and Trade of ZavqizodaZavqi Amin.

It should be noted that over the past years, the Republic of Tajikistan headed the SPECA Working Group on Trade and during the meeting issues of the SPECA Regional Strategy on trade facilitation, regional cooperation to achieve sustainable development goals, activities of the national committees on trade facilitation, Single Window, as well as non-tariff measures in trade were discussed.

Zavqizoda Z. A. provided information on the achievements of the Republic of Tajikistan in international trade, including the country's participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO), facilitation of trade procedures, export development, acceleration of the process of diversification of export-oriented products, and noted that not all of the existing opportunities are being used between SPECA member countries.

Furthermore, on 20-21 November 2019 the High Level Economic Forum of SPECA 2019 and the Council of Heads of SPECA was held, during which the delegation of Tajikistan in order to protect economic interests of country introduced its achievements and current opportunities and with the aim of further development of economic cooperation a number of strategic documents including SPECA National Strategy for Trade Facilitation, sustainable trade principles and elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade were proposed to the SPECA members. These documents were adopted by the Council of Heads of SPECA.