On March 2, 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov, who arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the High-Level International Conference “Regional Cooperation between Central Asian states within the framework of the Joint Action Plan for the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy”, to be held on March 3-4 this year in Tashkent, Uzbekistan MFA reports.

The parties discussed the current state and prospects for the development of Uzbekistan's cooperation with the UN. In particular, the main areas of cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Organization's Counter-Terrorism Directorate were considered.

As it was noted, in recent years Uzbekistan has been actively cooperating with specialized UN structures on combating terrorism and extremism and is a party to the fundamental universal legal documents in this area.

At the initiative of the Uzbek side, 4 resolutions of the UN General Assembly were adopted. Last year, Uzbekistan became a member of the Human Rights Council for the first time, in which a representative of Uzbekistan was appointed Deputy Chairman for 2022.

The parties also exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the accession of Uzbekistan to the United Nations (March 2, 1992).

UzA