Uzbekistan is preparing to host the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference

In 2025, Samarkand will host the 43rd session of the General Conference of UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. The decision was made at the previous session in November 2023. The event will be held outside Paris for the first time since 1985.

On 15 March, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on measures to prepare for the international forum.

The document notes that ‘in recent years, Uzbekistan‘s co-operation with UNESCO has risen to a new level. UNESCO fulfils the function of an important platform in further enhancing and strengthening the authority of our country in the world community, expanding and deepening bilateral and multilateral cooperation’.

‘In 2017-2023, 14 unique examples of Uzbek national cultural heritage have been included in the UNESCO lists and recognised internationally as the heritage of humanity. The city of Bukhara has been included in the Creative Cities Network. In September 2023, the 1050th anniversary of the birth of the great thinker and scholar-encyclopaedist Abu Rayhon Beruni was widely celebrated at UNESCO headquarters,’ the resolution reads.