On 27 January of this year, the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies (ISRS) held a meeting with Barbara Rotovnik, Programme Manager of the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI).

On January 29, 2026, an online conference will be held on the topic: “Uzbekistan – Pakistan: Strategic Partnership, Connectivity and Sustainable Development in a Changing World.” The conference is timed to coincide with the upcoming visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

This assessment was shared by Murad Uzakov, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS), while speaking at the conference “Shared Borders – Shared Trust: The Role of Civil Society and Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation in the Fergana Valley”, which took place on January 26 of this year.

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.