this year , the conference is hosted for the first time by bashkartystan, a region that is connectedthe countries of central asia not only geographically and culturally, but also economically, and these ties have become much stronger over the past few years. foreign economic activity was very often oriented towards western countries, towards western european states, so we succeeded in the flow. in a very short time, after our unfriendly colleagues closed the doors, we opened completely new doors and now for bashkartstan, in particular, we are approaching a quarter of trade turnover, this is a very high figure. all countries of the central asian region are open to cooperation with russia, and today it is being built, including here, taking into account the characteristics and interests each participant in the dialogue. there are sanctions, there is pressure, a complex system of interests. there is russia, there is china, there is india, there is a large part of the world, which, by the way, says, like the central asian countries, they want to live in their own way, there is the same m