South & Central Asia
Since 1993, we have worked throughout South and Central Asia to assist partner governments in creating export control licensing infrastructure, establishing customized enforcement training in their Customs training academies, and addressing terrorist threats. CTP is developing online training tools to assist in supporting outreach to industry, and has worked with several countries in this region to deploy customized software systems. CTP's South and Central Asian experience to date spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
CTP first traveled to Central Asia in 1993, to Kazakhstan, where CTP worked through 2007 to institute an extensive export control licensing architecture which includes a custom Internal Control Program (ICP). CTP supported Kazakhstan Customs in localizing and deploying both a Product Identification Tool to assist in recognizing controlled items at the borders, and also in establishing an Administrative Enforcement system to address violations that fall below the criminal threshold. CTP's ongoing work in Central Asia includes the Kyrgyz Republic since 1997, Tajikistan since 1999, and Turkmenistan since 1997, as well as nine years of engagement in Uzbekistan.
Working with Pakistan in recent years, CTP built on export control cooperation that began in 2004 to support the organizational development of Pakistan's new export control administration from scratch, including facilitating Pakistani officials in determining their requirement and planning to address them, with the result being the establishment of a new export control apparatus in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CTP has also provided training on terrorism interdiction and related topics, and is preparing to further assist Pakistan in developing an advanced licensing system including a customized Licensing Officer Instructional Simulation (LOIS) training tool.
In 2005 CTP initiated its cooperation with Bangladesh, focusing at first on anti-terrorism training. In 2009, this cooperation will expand to include introductory export control training in the legal and regulatory foundations of export control, in national control lists, and in licensing procedures.
