Ambassador Norland noted that the opinion of widespread corruption negatively affects the entire Central Asian region. However, he emphasized that the measures being taken against corruption in Uzbekistan have started changing the negative opinion.

The US embassy said that the Tashkent seminar devoted to "Implementation of the UN convention against corruption into the national legislation and into practice" celebrated the start of the initiatives of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to reveal and fight against corruption in Uzbekistan. Great Britain and the US Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs allocated about US$300,000 to partially finance the initiatives.