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The Fund Forum, the Women`s Council, Kelajak ovozi (Voice of the future) YIC, Special Olympics Uzbekistan, UNESCO Tashkent Office, the UN Office in Uzbekistan, UN Women, Civil Initiatives Support Center (CISC), the National Association of NGOs of Uzbekistan, the Committee of Women and Uzbekistan Football Federation have launched a series of events commemorating the International Day of Peace marked worldwide on September 21. Around 500 people participated in the events honoring World Peace Day.

GULI label showed its Spring-Summer 2012 Collection as part of New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The show, which turned out the most talked-about event of New York Fashion Week, took place according to the schedule of the Fashion Week on September 15, 2011 at 12 a.m. following a joint communiqué issued by GULI Collections team and IMG WORLDWIDE, INC. The runway show took place at Cipriani Restaurant, which has hosted fashion showcases by big-name designers such as Mark Jacobs.

Following its official presentation in Tashkent, the album “Fund Forum presents Uzbekistan” embarked on a global tour. On December 13, 14, and 15 the book was presented as part of festivities commemorating the 20th anniversary of Uzbekistan`s independence in Berlin, London and Vienna. Over 400 guests in London and Vienna and nearly 450 in Berlin attended the events.

Tashkent`s Turkiston Palace on October 5 will host a concert by the CIS Youth Symphonic Orchestra under the baton of prominent Russian conductor Vladimir Spivakov. The concert will conclude the orchestra`s tour of Belarus, China and Uzbekistan. Organized by the Fund Forum headed by Gulnara Karimova, the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS and the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, the orchestra will perform classical works.

On September 5-9, at Tashkent`s Salus Vita medical center a prominent Russian heart surgeon, Viktor Dovgan, examined 99 children with inborn heart disease and 15 children previously operated on at a St. Petersburg hospital. Based on the medical checkup results, 11 children with grave conditions have been selected for free treatment in St. Petersburg (Russia). The charitable campaign was held as part of the Family Health Project overseen by the Fund Forum and the Women`s Council with support from the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan.