On May 21, 2025, at the UN Headquarters in Vienna (Austria), within the framework of the 34th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, a side event was held on the topic: “Effective rehabilitation and reintegration of persons returning from war zones in Syria and Iraq: the experience of Central Asian countries.”

Strengthening connectivity will create a true win-win scenario. Most importantly, it will provide a powerful impetus for building a unified regional space, laying the foundation for lasting peace, sustainable development, and long-term stability across the region, Dr Eldor Aripov writes.

The Termez Dialogue in Uzbekistan aims to create a permanent platform for Central and South Asian cooperation, emphasising connectivity and economic integration.

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

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

Our beloved Uzbekistan is moving towards the new era of the national development. The profound changes are taking place in all areas of our life.

Saudi Arabia's leading English newspaper, “Arab News”, published a joint article by Eldor Aripov, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Abdulaziz Sager, Director of the Gulf Research Center, under the title "Central Asia and the GCC: From Historical Ties to Strategic Partnership."

From May 16-20, 2022, the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) and the Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) conducted the “Dialogue of Declarations,” a groundbreaking multi-faith initiative to “protect and promote freedom of conscience or belief of everyone, everywhere.”

On May 16-20, 2022, Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara cities will host the International Forum “Dialogue of Declarations”.

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.