The meetings of the EAG Working Groups and the 36th Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) were held in Tashkent (Republic of Uzbekistan) from May 30 to June 2, 2022.

The meetings were attended by the representatives of the EAG Member States, namely Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the FATF Secretariat, observer states and organizations of the Group.

Mongolia joined the Eurasian Anti-Money Laundering Group as an observer state in 2012 and reports annually to the Forum on its progress in combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

Since the last Forum, Mongolia has provided operational reports, technical assistance proposals, and evaluation methodologies, as well as other necessary explanations and information. In addition, the Financial Information Unit has widely participated in e-trainings, seminars and conferences organized by the Euro-Asian Anti-Money Laundering Group.

A total of 6 representatives from the National Council for Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, and the Financial Information Unit of Bank of Mongolia actively participated in the Meetings. These include:

1. Representative from Mongolian Immigration Agency;

2. Representative from Agency of Court Decision;

3. Representative from General Authority for State Registration;

4. Representative from Financial Information Unit of Bank of Mongolia;

5. Representative from General Authority of Border Protection.

Mongolia's exchange of information with the participants of the Euro-Asian Anti-Money Laundering Group Forum and the improvement of cooperation through the study of best practices will have a positive impact on strengthening Mongolia's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing system.

During the Plenary the Protocol amending the EAG statutory documents – the Agreement on the EAG and the Regulation on the Procedure for forming and implementing the Budget of the EAG has been signed by Member States.

The Plenary approved the concept of strengthening the Eurasian group interaction with representatives of high-level public authorities and governance of EAG Member States.

The Plenary adopted the Mutual evaluation Report and the Executive Summary of the Republic of Uzbekistan under the 2nd Round of EAG mutual evaluations.

The Plenary heard the 3rd follow-up report of the Republic of Tajikistan without technical compliance re-rating under the 2nd round of EAG mutual evaluations and noted the progress made by Tajikistan in development of its national AML/CFT system. 

The Plenary approved the results of the first round of ML/TF risk assessment in the Eurasian region and discussed proposals for further action to develop the measures to minimize the identified regional risks. In addition, the Plenary approved the launch of the typologies project: "Typologies and trends in combating terrorist financing" led by the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Tajikistan, and agreed to continue the monitoring of ML/TF risks associated with the instability in Afghanistan.

The Secretariat of the Euro-Asian Anti-Money Laundering Group praised the contribution of observer countries and international organizations in identifying, managing and reducing the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing in the Eurasian region.

At the end of the meeting, it was decided to hold the next 37th meeting of the Euro-Asian Anti-Money Laundering Group in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.