23 February 2017
The Central Asia Initiative, launched at the Seventh Ministerial Meeting in New York on 21 September 2016 under the auspices of the GCTF FTF Working Group, aims to assist Central Asian States to implement the GCTF The Hague – Marrakech Memorandum on Good Practices for a More Effective Response to the FTF Phenomenon and address the challenges of countering FTFs in the region. The meeting discussed national, regional and international good practices on addressing FTF flows, radicalization, and the return of Foreign Terrorist Fighters – with a specific emphasis on The Hague – Marrakech Memorandum and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2178.