Central Asian countries have established their own regional civil aviation organization - the Eurasian Civil Aviation Conference (EACAC). It includes Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The declaration on the establishment of the organization was signed on November 6 at the first EACAC meeting in Almaty.

Representatives of the two countries in the region with the largest volumes of air traffic became the leaders of the new organization. Talgat Lastayev, Vice Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan, was appointed Secretary General of EACAC, and Tahir Nazarov, Director General of the Civil Aviation Agency under the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan, was appointed President of the conference.

“The Eurasian Civil Aviation Conference will better coordinate the efforts of our countries to ensure unity of opinion and strong representation in the international aviation community,” explained Katalin Radu, head of the Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan.

EACAC's objectives include strengthening regional cooperation and mutual support; developing and implementing common policies and procedures to improve flight safety, aviation security, facilitation, sustainable growth and development of unmanned aviation; coordinating and implementing international civil aviation standards; strengthening the aviation capabilities of the countries in the region and increasing their presence in the international aviation arena; providing technical assistance and participating in the training of aviation personnel, as well as creating a unified platform “base of EACAC inspectors”.

At the first meeting of the organization, the projects on training of the Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan Excellence Center and on creation of a unified platform “base of EASAS inspectors” were presented.

The initiative to establish EACAC was first announced by Kazakhstan in May 2023. In April 2024 in Toulouse, the EACAC project was presented during the meeting of the Directors General of Civil Aviation of the European and North Atlantic Bureau of ICAO (EURNAT-DGCA).

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Georgia and Mongolia are also considering the possibility of joining the new organization. The latter took part in the first EASAS meeting in Astana as an observer state.