Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Nov. 19
By Huseyn Hasanov - Trend:
Ashgabat hosted the nineteenth plenary meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EAG), Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported on Monday.
According to the newspaper, the issue on improving the national financial monitoring systems of EAG member states was discussed during the meetings of the working groups.
Moreover, the issues of supervision and development of typological research on combating money laundering and terrorism financing were raised in Ashgabat.
EAG member states are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, India, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. All these countries signed an agreement on the establishment of a FATF-style intergovernmental regional group in June 2011.
Such observer countries as Turkey, Ukraine, as well as international organisations such as the UN, the World Bank and OSCE attended Ashgabat's meeting.