Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Needs Assessment Mission arrived in Uzbekistan with the purpose to assess the pre-election environment for the upcoming October 2021 Presidential elections in our country, including preparation for the elections.

Upon Shavkat Mirziyoyev's election as President of Uzbekistan in 2016, the role of a robust civil society became the cornerstone of development for a new period in the country's history. 

In Uzbekistan, systematic work is being carried out to fulfill international obligations to strengthen the legislative and institutional framework for the protection of human rights, to implement international human rights standards in national legislation and to intensify cooperation with international organizations on the protection of human rights.

A commentator once remarked that “everything is geopolitical in Central Asia.” Granting that this is true, we should further add that any talk about geopolitics cannot be without references to geoeconomics, especially when it comes to recent developments taking place in the heart of Central Asia, as exemplified in – and to some extent a result of – the foreign policy of Uzbekistan of the last five years or so.

The First Vice-Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of the Parliament of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Director of the National Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Human Rights Akmal Saidov in an interview with “Dunyo” IA commented the ratification by our country of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the 15th plenary session of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, on May 28-29:

АНКАРА, 1 июня. /ИА «Дунё»/. Министр внутренних дел Пулат Бобожонов прибыл в Турцию для обсуждения вопросов активизации межведомственного сотрудничества, сообщает корреспондент ИА «Дунё».

“One of the most important socio-political events of this year in Uzbekistan, which is of key importance for the further sustainable development of our country, and the entire Central Asian region as a whole, in the medium and long term, is the upcoming presidential elections in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Government of Uzbekistan is based on the principle: it is important to combat the causes that cause citizens to become susceptible to terrorist ideologies, - said the Head of the Department of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Timur Akhmedov, in an analytical article “Experience of Uzbekistan in the fight against terrorism and international cooperation”, reports “Dunyo” IA correspondent.

30 мая Президент Республики Узбекистан Шавкат Мирзиёев по приглашению Президента Республики Корея Мун Чжэ Ина принял участие в работе второго Международного саммита «Партнерство ради зеленого роста и глобальных целей – 2030» (P4G), проходящего в Сеуле в формате видеоконференции.

Благодаря открытой, конструктивной, прагматичной, дружелюбной региональной политике Узбекистана сегодня в Центральной Азии наблюдаются положительные тенденции, затронувшие практически все сферы - от политической и экономической до культурно-гуманитарной.