UN Sec-Gen, Uzbek president to confer on cooperation
TASHKENT. June 10 (Interfax) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan on June 11-12, the Uzbek media said on Wednesday.
"His meetings and negotiations with Uzbek President Islam Karimov will highlight the current state and prospects of cooperation between our country and UN agencies and pressing regional and global affairs," the media said.
That would be a second visit of the UN secretary-general to Uzbekistan; Ban paid his first visit in 2010 to study the Aral Sea crisis.
Uzbekistan joined the United Nations in March 1992.
Representative offices of UN agencies - the World Health Organization, the UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund, the UNESCO, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Development Program, and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS - are working in Uzbekistan.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began his Central Asian tour on June 9.
