The Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the National Human Rights Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan in partnership and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Country Office in Uzbekistan, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, the F. Ebert Foundation held the Samarkand Human Rights Web-Forum on the subject of ‘YOUTH 2020: GLOBAL SOLIDARITY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMA RIGHTS’ on 12-13 August 2020.

On 26 August 2020 the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Valdai International Discussion Club held an online conference on the topic "Opportunities of Russia and Central Asian States in Afghanistan".

Dear participants of the Forum!

It accords me a profound great pleasure to welcome all of you, the participants of Samarkand Forum on Human rights “Youth 2020: global solidarity, sustainable development and human rights”. I cordially congratulate you from the bottom of my heart on the International Youth Day.