SOME ASPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION'S POLICY TOWARDS CENTRAL ASIA

This article examines the political framework of the European Union (EU) Central Asian relations. The goal of the research is to analyze the priorities of the EU policy towards Central Asia. This article identifies common features of internal political transformation processes, foreign policy orientations of Central Asian countries, and analyzes the EU strategy toward the region, examines the goals and objectives of the national and the EU strategic documents, identifies the matching objectives of the EU and Central Asian countries, and describes the mechanisms and policy instruments used to implement the policy in the region. The main outcome of the current research is the correspondence of the objectives of the EU strategy with national goals of the countries.