On August 2, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the High Commissioner for National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Kairat Abdrakhmanov, the presidential press service said.
The parties considered the ways to establish practical cooperation, as well as prospects for the implementation of joint projects and programs in the field of ensuring interethnic harmony and sustainable development.
The sides commended the current level of constructive dialogue and fruitful interaction with the OSCE institutions in priority areas - in the field of security, the spheres of the economy and ecology, and the humanitarian dimension. A "road map" is being jointly implemented, which provides for about 50 activities for the medium term.
During the meeting, the High Commissioner praised the national policies being implemented in Uzbekistan to develop a culture of tolerance and humanism, ensure interethnic and civil understanding and harmony, and educate the younger generation on this basis.
He supported Uzbekistan’s initiatives aimed at strengthening relations of friendship, good neighborliness and multifaceted partnership in the Central Asian region, to promote peaceful development and economic reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Agreements were reached on holding a number of joint events - a regional seminar on ensuring interethnic harmony and presentation of international experience and recommendations of the OSCE, as well as the participation of the Uzbek delegation in a round table on interethnic relations.
