AKIPRESS.COM - Following his constructive visit to Uzbekistan in November 2017, the OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger signed a Joint Commitment with Uzbekistan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Gayrat Fazilov in Vienna on December 7 to jointly implement a road map on enhanced cooperation between the OSCE and the country, the OSCE said.

The road map, formally called the ‘Action Plan on further development of co-operation of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the OSCE in 2018-2019’, was proposed by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev during the OSCE Secretary General’s visit to the country from 9 to 11 November 2017.

The Joint Commitment covers a wide-ranging list of activities in all three dimensions of the OSCE’s work – the politico-military, economic and environmental and human dimensions, stating that these are designed to “contribute to the National Action Strategy of the Government of Uzbekistan (2017-2021) and promote the OSCE agenda in Uzbekistan.”

It adds that the Government of Uzbekistan and the OSCE are committed "to work together to build a more prosperous, resilient and sustainable society.”