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

'charged issue' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'agitating the leaders of uzbekistan azerbaijan and north asia' is the wordplay.
'agitating' is an anagram indicator.
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'north' becomes 'N' (abbreviation).
The initial letters of 'uzbekistan azerbaijan' is 'ua'.
'the'+'ua'='theua'
'theua' anagrammed gives 'eutha'.
'eutha'+'n'+'asia'='EUTHANASIA'

Can you help me to learn more?