Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – On 1 August 2022, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov received the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov.

The parties noted that in recent years, the interaction of Uzbekistan with the OSCE and its institutions has significantly intensified and reached a qualitatively new level.

The High Commissioner highly appreciated the policy pursued in the republic to ensure interethnic harmony and tolerance, as well as to expand cultural and educational ties with foreign countries. It was especially noted that the policy of good neighborliness of Uzbekistan in Central Asia plays a positive role in strengthening friendship and mutual understanding between the peoples and ethnic groups of the region.

Abdrakhmanov stressed that Uzbekistan has created all the necessary conditions for education, work, manifestation of their creative abilities and potential of representatives of all nations and nationalities. He welcomed that strengthening the atmosphere of interethnic harmony and religious tolerance in society is one of the priority goals for the implementation of the Development Strategy of New Uzbekistan for 2022-2026.

The parties expressed their readiness for the progressive development of mutually beneficial relations on all issues of mutual interest.