We thank Ambassador Salber for the information provided in his excellent and comprehensive report on his recent trip to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.

If you will permit me, in the interest of time, I would simply like to confine my comments to what I—looking at his report—would judge to be its prime point of emphasis: the call for increasing attention to police and border service training in Central Asia.

Like the European Union, we agree that we should look at this too and see it as a way to combat terrorism, to fight organized crime, and trafficking and to improve the respect for human rights.

We look forward to concrete proposals on activities that the OSCE could undertake in this sphere. We urge Ambassador Salber to move forward with such proposals as soon as possible so that we can look at funding and other resource questions.