A roundtable titled “Providing additional preferences and benefits to small businesses and private entrepreneurship” was held in Tashkent on 9 July 2012.

Dear visitors,

Consular section of the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Austria will not operate on 20th of August 2012, due to the National Holiday.

Уважаемые посетители,

Консульский отдел Посольства не будет функционировать 20 августа 2012г. по случаю Национального праздника.

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are glad to inform you that the VII International Specialized Exhibition-Fair of mini-technologies and compact equipment for agriculture “Uzbekistan Agrominitech Expo” will be held in 28-31 May 2012 inTashkent in the central pavilion of the national exhibition company “Uzexpocentre”.

To the Prime Minister
of the Republic of Tajikistan
A.G.Akylov

Dear Akyl Ghaybullayevich,

By thoroughly learning the substance of Your message of March 31, 2012, we would like to inform that on the issues raised in that letter we have numerously given the exhaustive answers and explanations through letters №06/15-2695 of November 2, 2009, №05/15-845 of July 25, 2011, №12/37510 of December 15, 2011 and №02/15-217 of March 30, 2012.

Their essence and substance are as follows:

The fifth Asrlar Sadosi (Echo of centuries) Festival of Traditional Culture will be held on May 5-6 in Ellikqala District in the Republic of Karakalpakstan. Tuproq Qala fortress and the world-famous Savistsky Museum of Art will become the central venues of the festival, which over the past 4 years has been a crossroads of traditions, arts, history and modernity. The festival is organized annually by the Fund Forum in collaboration with the UNESCO Tashkent Office.

Dear Visitors,

Please be informed that new EVISA system is currently running on a beta-test basis and may cause technical difficulties during e-visa application process.

In this regard, Consular section of the Embassy requests to use hard copy (paper based) visa application forms and send/deliver them to the Embassy for further processing.

Embassy will inform through its web-page about resuming the regular process of application by EVISA system.

Embassy apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

The following message by Ambassador Vitali Fen of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Republic of Korea was contributed to The Korea Post for publication on the occa­sion of the 20th anniversary of establish­ment of diplomatic relations between Ko­rea and Uzbekistan.-Ed.