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.

The session will be held at the Silk Road Samarkand tourist complex. The Organising Committee will deal with all organisational issues related to the session. In particular, it is tasked to equip the venues in Samarkand with modern technical and telecommunication equipment, as well as to prepare the facilities in Tashkent and Samarkand and the necessary hotel fund.

High-level cultural events, excursions and receptions will be organised in Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Shakhrisabz during the session.

Media and audio-visual productions on the significance of the Samarkand session are planned. They will be broadcasted in domestic and foreign media, as well as posted on social networks ‘using such techniques as hashtag and challenge’.

A book-album ‘Samarkand – at the Crossroads of World Civilisations’ will be published in Uzbek, Russian, English and French, as well as a series of postage stamps and envelopes, calendars, commemorative coins, silver and gold coins.

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