Tashkent, Jan. 10 -- The current Albanian chairmanship of the OSCE has decided to appoint the Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan, Ambassador Sherzod Asadov as the Head of the Economic and Environmental Committee of the OSCE Permanent Council this year.

The Economic and Environmental Committee oversees a wide range of issues of cooperation and security in the economic and environmental spheres in the OSCE area, including issues of anti-corruption, energy and food security, transport and logistics, migration, development of information and communication and green technologies.

The UK Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Ambassador Neil Bush, has been appointed Chairman of the Security Committee, and the Czech Ambassador to the organi...