POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS central ASIA From 13 to 17 August, the PCUz supported the participation of three expert financial appraisers from Uzbekistan in the “Assessor Training Workshop 2018” in Kuala Lumpur, organized by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) and the EAG. The training focused on enhancing the skills of potential assessors to participate in assessment teams that will undertake mutual evaluations between 2019 and 2021. The PCUz supported the participation in these events in the framework of the ExB project, “Support to Uzbekistan in combating money laundering and terrorism financing”. From 22 to 25 October, a study tour to Ankara by the PCUz was organized for four delegates from the GPO and two delegates from the Presidential Administration to enhance collaboration between the FIU of Turkey and of Uzbekistan. The tour, which took place at the invitation of Turkey’s Ministry of Treasury and Finance, included visits to this Ministry, the Ministry of Justice and the National Police. During these visits, the Turkish counterparts gave presentations on their approaches and activities in the fields of AML/CFT. The study tour was facilitated within the framework of the project “Support to Uzbekistan in combating money laundering and terrorism financing”. From 11 to 14 December, in Tashkent, AML/CFT was the focus of a workshop for regulators and policy-makers organized by the PCUz in co-operation with the Department on Combating Economic Crimes under the GPO and the EAG. Some 60 participants took part in the workshop, which aimed at preparing them for the second round of mutual evaluations by the EAG, a process during which regional peers evaluate each other’s compliance with international standards in this sphere. The PCUz support to the workshop was part of its ongoing efforts in assisting the Government of Uzbekistan in AML/CFT. Counter-Terrorism & P/C VERLT The PCUz supported the presentation of research results on factors conducive to terrorism. The target group of this research was Uzbek migrants working in the Russian Federation. Over 50 representatives of law enforcement agencies, civil society, private sector, media and the international community attended the event in Tashkent on 26 February. The research was developed within the new project “Assistance in development of national capacity in conducting research on topical issues of regional threats” and in close co-operation with the NGO Center for Study of Regional Threats (CSRT). The event was the first undertaken in the framework of this project, which was launched only in 2018, although the CSRT has been a long-standing partner of the PCUz, with whom other joint projects, mainly on countering terrorism, were and are implemented. Participants at the international conference “On the Role of Youth in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism” in Tashkent, 11 June 2018. (OSCE/Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan) On 19 and 20 April, in the context of the PCUz’s wider antiterrorism efforts, the PCUz supported the participation of six state officials in a conference on P/C VERLT in Seoul, Republic of Korea. At the conference, which was organized by the MFA of the Republic of Korea in co-operation with the TNTD/ ATU and geared at strengthening dialogue and co-operation between the OSCE and the Asian region, representatives from the SSS, the MoI, the MFA and the National Guard of Uzbekistan discussed contemporary challenges and good practices in P/C VERLT, including those pertaining to online media, youth and gender. The participation of Uzbek officials was a prelude to a major conference “On the role of youth in P/C VERLT” co-organized by the PCUz and the Government of Uzbekistan, which was held in Tashkent and Samarkand from 11 and 12 June. On 24 and 25 April, PCUz supported a Regional Workshop for Central Asian States on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 Legal/Regulatory Requirements for Strategic Trade Controls. The Uzbek participants came from the Ministry of Health; the Centre for Preparing Specialists on Radiation Safety; the State Inspection on Oversight of Safe Conduct of Work in Industry, Mining and Domestic Sectors; the Ministry of Foreign Trade; the State Customs Committee and the MFA of Uzbekistan. At the workshop, the participants were familiarized with the international obligations under UNSCR 1540 and were provided with a general overview of the national laws related to UNSCR 1540 in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as these countries’ challenges and achieved progress in 2016 and 2017. Support for the implementation of UNSCR 1540 139