Uzbekistan

Kazakhstan has set up the second detachment of border guards on its border with Uzbekistan in South Kazakhstan Region, the commander of the regional department Ontustik (South) of the border service under the National Security Committee, Talgat Esetov, told Interfax-Kazakhstan today.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov and Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov exchanged views with respect to the regional security and military cooperation between the two nations.

Supreme muftis of four Central Asian countries have created an advisory council, supreme mufti of Kazakhstan Hajji Absattar Derbisali told a Monday press conference in Almaty.

Visitors from France led by the French ambassador to Uzbekistan Jean-Bernard Hart visited the museum in the Afshona Village of Peshkun District, the birthplace of the great Abu Ali Ibn Sino.

The history of friendship and thousands of years long relations between the Uzbek and Chinese nations goes back to the Great Silk Road era. Current bilateral relations are developing in accordance with the most topical requirements of the present day.

The 15th international conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus with the theme of ’Expansion of NATO in Central Asia and the Caucasus, its Dimensions and Consequences’ wound up here Tuesday afternoon.

Fidokorlar (Self-sacrificers) Party of Uzbekistan approved decision to nominate first secretary of its Central Council and head of fraction at Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis Ahtam Tursunov.

The Russian minister of defence, Anatoliy Serdyukov, and his Uzbek counterpart, Ruslan Mirzayev, have discussed the issues of regional security, prospects for military and technical cooperation during talks held in Uzbek capital.

Moscow "attaches great significance to Uzbekistan’s equal participation in the work of the permanently operating bodies - the secretariat and united headquarters - of the Collective Security Treaty Organization [CSTO]", Russian Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov has said during talks with his Uzbek counterpart Ruslan Mirzayev, the Russian Defence Ministry’s press secretary, Aleksey Kuznetsov, has told an ITAR-TASS correspondent.

At a regular meeting of SCO prime ministers on 2 November , Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is expected to come up with several offers on expanding regional cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.