Ceremony of handing over Romanian books will be held on September 6, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. in the lobby of the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi.
The books (44 volumes) are a gift from the National Library of Romania to the Alisher Navoi National Library of Uzbekistan. Their themes are related to culture, history, contemporary and popular art, and fiction.
The event is designed to show the importance of developing cooperation in the cultural and humanitarian area between Romania and Uzbekistan.
This is the second public diplomacy event organized at the initiative of the Embassy of Romania in the Republic of Uzbekistan as part of the celebration of 160 years of Romanian diplomacy (July 27, 2022, Romania celebrated the 160th anniversary of the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the name "Department of Foreign and State Affairs"), and also on the ocassion of the 31st anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The first event was the ascent of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mr. Daniel Cristian Ciobanu, to Hazrat Sultan (4,083 meters) in , Kashkadarya province and recording a video in Uzbek with congratulations on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Uzbekistan. On September 7, 2022, the third event will take place in the city of Termez, namely, the transfer, with the help of UNICEF, of medical equipment purchased by the Romanian state for the Surkhandarya Province Children's Multidisciplinary Center.
From January 12 to 21, 2022, the exhibition "Romania's Contribution to the World Cultural Heritage" was organized in the lobby of the Alisher Navoi National Library of Uzbekistan. The exhibition was a great success among visitors to the National Library of Uzbekistan and received positive coverage in the Uzbek media and social networks, thereby contributing to the formation of a positive image of Romania, Romanian culture and civilization at the level of public opinion in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The ongoing reforms in Uzbekistan open up good prospects for expanding dialogue and contacts between Romania and Uzbekistan at all levels.
