On 15 October the first international peace forum in Fergana, Uzbekistan, opened on Wednesday as peacemakers and top diplomats commended Central Asia’s longstanding tradition of harmony which became a key driver of peacebuilding efforts in the ethnically diverse cross-border region of Fergana Valley.

On October 15, in Fergana, within the framework of the first session of the Fergana Peace Forum, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) and the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS).