OSCE Secretary General to visit Uzbekistan

VIENNA, 16 November 2022 – OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will visit Uzbekistan from 16 to 18 November for meetings with high-level officials and to speak at the “EU - Central Asia Connectivity Conference: Global Gateway for Sustainable Development”.

In Tashkent, the Secretary General will meet with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Norov, and Chairperson of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis (the Parliament) Tanzila Narbaeva. This visit – her first as OSCE Secretary General – is an opportunity to deepen the OSCE-Uzbek co-operation, which marks its 30th anniversary this year.

Schmid will also address the International Forum "Ensuring Children's Rights to a Healthy Environment", organized by the Zamin International Public Foundation together with UNICEF to discuss how we can best protect children from the effects of climate change.

In Samarkand, the Secretary General Schmid will address the EU - Central Asia Connectivity Conference. The event will provide a platform for intra- and inter-regional dialogue on shared solutions that will help to mitigate the impact of the various challenges that the region is facing, from the impact of the new geopolitical context to the underlying and rapidly worsening problems of climate change.