Strategy of actions as the guaranty of inter-ethnic relations and global security

As we know, the radical changes of the late 20^th and the early 21^st centuries covered the social, economic, cultural and ecological sides of many countries all over the world. These changes created many opportunities for appearance of independent states in Central Asia, as well as for the social and economic increase and development of living standards of local communities. According to the First President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, “Uzbekistan entered the international scene thanks to the Independence. The borders, which had been nearly closed for hundreds of years, were opened, and the world community welcomed warm our country; we made good relationship with the independent republics of the former Soviet Union, we became closer to our fraternal neighbors, such as Middle Asian republics and Kazakhstan. Today I am totally sure that Uzbekistan gained its place among the independent states. Uzbekistan became the equal one among the equals” (Karimov, 2011). In fact, being an equal constituent entity of the world community, the Republic of Uzbekistan takes an active part in solving of continental and world issues, and is internationally recognized.

Today the different parts of the world, as well as in the region of Central Asia, are underwent the political and economic changes, and these processes present severe difficulties. First, it concerns the geostrategic image and wealth in natural resources. Related to this issue, the First President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov says the following: “Central Asia is a region where the collective safety system is not set properly from the viewpoint of geography and policy. We are a part of the continent where the diverging interests of Russia, China, India, as well as the other Eastern and Western countries appear (Karimov, 1997). Also, the base of the external politics of the Republic of Uzbekistan is important for on time solving and realization of the meaning of different tragic events which can happen within the continent and in the world, as well as the reasons which can cause them and their historical roots, in order to keep the inter-ethnic peace.

The First President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov stated in his work “Uzbekistan on the threshold of the 21st century. Threats to the security. Conditions of progress”, that the 21st century would be of no doubt a century affecting the international relations of the whole world. In this context, it is necessary to take into account the integration process not only as a historical necessity of enlarging the participation of sovereign states in various international institutes and organizations but also as a powerful mean of keeping stability in some regions and in the whole world” (Karimov, 1997).

The example is the situation, which happened in the south of Kirghizstan in summer in 2010. It was necessary to render the urgent humanitarian assistance to the people injured during the conflict. About 100 000 thousand citizens of Kirghizstan were placed temporarily in Andijan, Namangan and Fergana regions of Uzbekistan as a result of the tragic events that happened in the south of the Republic of Kirghizstan on June 11-15 in 2010.

All measures were implemented in order to render the humanitarian assistance to the assigned destinations quickly and punctually to the people, who had been temporarily moved to Uzbekistan from Kirgizistan. Humanitarian supplies from foreign countries, which cost 3926.6 thousand US dollars, came to the temporary locations of the people in Uzbekistan. The international organizations brought more than a half of these supplies: the UNO donated 1337.9 thousand US dollars, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society donated 636 thousand US dollars, about 67 thousand US dollars were given by UNICEF, and MSF donated 41,8 thousand US dollars.

The temporarily moved people from the neighbor country secured free medical assistance in Uzbekistan. They were provided with all the necessary things like tents, clothes, food, and household items. A lot of people and financial resources were attracted in order to make camps for the temporarily moved people. The overall cost of the humanitarian assistance of the government of Uzbekistan was 4034412.9 thousand soms. Moreover, the organizations and companies of our country brought about 3.1 billion soms, and all people of Uzbekistan helped a lot (Security, 2010). In conclusion, it is important to say that the Republic of Uzbekistan remained in this situation a peaceful country that solved all the conflicts and problems by peaceful means.

Taking into consideration this important issue, it is important to conserve stability, peace, inter-ethnic harmony in our country and solve the conflicts among the nations on time. The president of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev presented “The Strategy of Actions”, which concerns five priority directions of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan during the period of 2017–2021 [6]. Among the priority directions the strategy includes “providing of safety, inter-ethnic harmony and religious tolerance, as well as mutual beneficial and practical external politics”. So, its accepting means the priority in supporting of inter-ethnic relations, international cooperation, solving of issues of the global safety.

At the current stage of development, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev implements these priority tasks, having set as the main strategic task the implementation of equitable cooperation with the world countries and close neighbor countries; for example, he introduced a large-scale cooperation with Turkmenistan. Under this project, he visited Ashgabat city on March 6, 2017, and met with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. As the result of the negotiations concerning the large-scale cooperation, the Presidents signed the joint statement about the strategic partnership between the Republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The partnership program includes the economic partnership between the related ministries and authorities during the period of 2018-2020, further improving of the cooperation in the railway transport sphere, cultural and humanitarian program for the period of 2017-2019. It also includes the partnership program between the ministries of external affairs for the period of 2017-2019, as well as the contracts on delivering of agricultural technical and chemical products from Uzbekistan to Turkmenistan. The region governments of Khorezm and Dashavuz, as well as Bukhara and Lebap signed the agreements concerning the partnership in trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian spheres (People’s word, 2017).

Implementation of these prority directions of the strategy of actions is directed to the following:

– Protection of the constitutional system, as well as the sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

– strengthening of the citizenship, inter-ethnic and inter-confessions peace and harmony;

– strengthening of the defensive ability of the country, enhancing of martial power and potential of the armed forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

– preventing of the ecological problems which afflict damage to the environment, health, and gene pool;

– preventing of the emergency situations, and improving of the elimination system;

– strengthening of the international reputation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, informing about the reformations, which are being implemented in the country;

– refining of the regulatory and legal framework of the external political and external economic activity, as well as of the contractual and legal base of partnership of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

– creation of the base to implement the tasks directed to solvation of the issues concerning the delimitation and demarcation of the country borders.

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