Charged issue agitating the leaders of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and north Asia (10)

'charged issue' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'agitating the leaders of uzbekistan azerbaijan and north asia' is the wordplay.
'agitating' indicates anagramming the letters.
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'north' becomes 'N' (abbreviation).
The first letters of 'uzbekistan azerbaijan' is 'ua'.
'the'+'ua'='theua'
'theua' with letters rearranged gives 'eutha'.
'eutha'+'n'+'asia'='EUTHANASIA'

Can you help me to learn more?