The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan is the agency in charge of arranging the study of foreign students in Uzbekistan.

Due to the broad discussion in the mass media, statements and addresses by individual politicians and analysts with regard to the Declaration by the Heads of the SCO member-states adopted in Astana, concerning the need that the relevant members of antiterrorist coalition on Afghanistan have to determine the deadline terms of temporary use of land infrastructure sites and stationing of military contingents on the territory of the SCO member-states, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan states the following: