Kargi:The Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan Friendship Center has been officially opened at the Asian University of Technologies in Kargi, Uzbekistan. This initiative was led by the Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).

According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, the opening ceremony featured several notable attendees, including Urakov Abdumalikkhon, the Rector of the Asian University of Technology, and representatives from the Department of Friendship Societies and Cooperation with Fraternal Regions of Uzbekistan. Other distinguished guests included scientific workers from the Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature, associate professors Gulnar Gambarova, Agazade Ilhama, and Bayramova Saadat, as well as Yusif Aliyev, Rector of the Guba branch of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. The event was also attended by Khayal Rza, the press secretary of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union and chairman of the International Turkic Authors' Union, along with Turkish scientist and poet Mahmut Ozkoca and Azerbaijani scientist and poet Bahruz Niftaliyev.

During the ceremony, Ayten Gurbanova, a senior research fellow of the Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature and PhD in Philology, was appointed as the head of the new Friendship Center. She emphasized that the center will enhance the collaboration between the youth of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, fostering a deeper understanding and promotion of the shared national roots and values of both nations.