To take timely and adequate measures to respond to the emerging drug situation, the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan approved the “National Strategy to Combat Drug Addiction and Drug Crime in the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2024-2028” (N-73 dated 06.05.2024).

This Strategy is aimed at improving the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of drug control and the national system of monitoring the drug situation, ensuring national and public security, and protecting the health of citizens.

The Strategy builds on the positive international experience of advanced countries in the field of timely response to trans-border crime threats related to drug trafficking.

By presidential decree, the National Information and Analytical Centre for Drug Control was transformed into the National Centre for Drug Control under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (National Centre). It is important to note that the focus of the transformed National Centre is the systematic in-depth scientific, practical and informational-analytical study, identification and forecasting of the main factors and trends in the drug-related situation in the country by region.

In this context, CARICC welcomes the transformation of the central coordinating competent authority of Uzbekistan within the framework of the implementation of the Agreement “On the Establishment of CARICC”, which will contribute to improving the level of cooperation of the competent authorities of Uzbekistan with CARICC.

An agreement between the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the establishment of a Central Asian regional information and coordination center to combat illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors was signed on 24 July 2006 in Astana.

Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Security Service, the Customs Committee under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the General Prosecutor's Office, and the National Centre for Drug Control under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan has identified by the Uzbek side as the competent authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan under the Agreement on the Establishment of CARICC.