Since April 15, 2012 Uzbekistan is the party to Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents of 5 October 1961. Therefore all documents apostilled in the U.S. will be accepted in Uzbekistan without legalization by the Consular Section (if these documents have a notarized translation into Uzbek or Russian language). The offices of secretaries of states provide apostille for the U.S. documents intended to use abroad.