“…This group planned to become a consultative body of the international community operating under the auspices of the UN and an important tool for achieving the goals of stabilizing the situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. 10 The rivalry of external forces in Afghanistan, their conflicting policies, internal political instability and unpredictability in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan have not allowed this initiative to find the proper support from a number of countries, and as a result it was not realized. After the failure of this updated initiative, Uzbekistan proceeded mainly on a bilateral basis in its cooperation with Afghanistan and on any Afghan related issues, declaring the inefficiency of existing multilateral formats on the stabilization of the conflict situation in this country.…”