Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan meets with OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities

On August 1, 2022, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov received OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov.

The High Commissioner praised the policy pursued in the republic to ensure interethnic harmony and tolerance, as well as to expand cultural and educational ties with foreign countries.

He also noted that Uzbekistan's good neighborliness policy in Central Asia,plays a positive role in strengthening friendship and mutual understanding.

Abdrakhmanov stressed that Uzbekistan created all the necessary conditions for education, work for all ethnic groups 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.