On December 18-20, 2025, a landmark event in the history of relations between Central Asia and Japan will take place in Tokyo – the first summit of heads of state in the "Central Asia + Japan" format. This meeting will constitute a significant milestone that will open a new chapter in the strategic partnership and provide a powerful impetus to multifaceted cooperation between the region and one of the world's leading economies...

On 17 December 2025, the Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) Eldor Aripov took part in a meeting dedicated to the prospects for cooperation between Central Asia and the United States within the framework of the “C5+1” format.

On 16 December this year, the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) hosted a meeting between ISRS First Deputy Director Akramjon Nematov and European Union Ambassador to Uzbekistan Toivo Klaar.

On 4 December 2025, First Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS), Akramjon Nematov, took part in the annual meeting of the supreme governing body – the Board of Directors of the Swiss foundation PeaceNexus.

Tashkent hosted a conference on “Uzbekistan – Germany: New horizons of cooperation”.

Tashkent hosted a conference on “Uzbekistan – Germany: New horizons of cooperation”.

In the leading English-language newspaper of the Republic of Korea, “Seoul City”, a joint article by Akramjon Nematov, First Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS), and Shakhlo Khamrakhodjaeva, leading Research Fellow at ISRS, entitled “Dialogue without Borders: How Central Asian Countries Are Strengthening Cooperation,” has been published.

An article by Eldor Aripov, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, focusing on the outcomes of the first session of the Fergana Peace Forum, has been published on the leading European news portals Berlin Tribune and London Post.

The leading Luxembourg publication "Eureflect" published an article by Shakhnoza Kodirova, Head of Department at the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, entitled “The EU’s Role in Uzbekistan’s Transformation: Supporting Human Development and Education.”

Center for Global & Strategic Studies, (CGSS), Islamabad and Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Pakistan jointly organized an Article Writing Competition titled "New Uzbekistan - New Strategy for Development under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev”.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation continues to closely monitor the developments in Afghanistan and declares the following in this regard.

For two centuries, great-power competition for zones of influence and strategic dominance has disrupted millennia-old trade, cultural and scientific exchanges between Central Asia and South Asia that had contributed to their prosperity and allowed them to build some of the greatest civilizations in human history.