Tashkent hosts an expert forum on “Strategic dialogue between Central Asia and the Republic of Korea: Prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation”.

The forum, held at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, brought together the heads of diplomatic missions of the Central Asian countries in Uzbekistan, leadership and representatives of expert-analytical, scientific, and academic circles of Central Asia and the Republic of Korea.

The Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan (ISRS), Eldor Aripov, addressed the forum.

As previously reported, at the expert forum organized by ISRS in partnership with the Center for International Area Studies at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, views were exchanged on the current situation in Central Asia, prospects for further development of economic cooperation, and the expansion of cultural and humanitarian dialogue between the Central Asian countries and the Republic Korea.

From the Korean side, the event was attended by the Director of the Center for International Area Studies Kang Jun-young, Executive Director of the Secretariat of the Republic of Korea – Central Asia Cooperation Forum Lee Jong-kook, Secretary to South Korean President for Economic Security Wang Yun-jong, other professors and experts.

Gayrat Khonnazarov, UzA