On March 2-6 this year, a delegation led by the Chairman of the State Committee on statistics took part in the International forum on official statistics with the participation of heads of statistical agencies of The United Nations member States, as well as in the 51st session of the UN statistical Commission.

Members of the delegation initially participated in the forum of national statistical authorities, which was organized on the theme "Data management - a solution to the problems of official statistics".

During the forum, 3 sessions were organized: "Cooperation on data, information exchange and information security", "Role and responsibility of statistical agencies in the data age", "New approach and problem solving".

During the forum, heads and experts of the UN Statistics Department, Eurostat, UNECE, Paris-21 and other international organizations made reports on the agenda, and documents for the 51st session of the UN Statistical Commission were prepared based on the results of the discussions.

The 51st session of the UN statistical Commission was held over 4 working days and discussions were held on 26 topics, including the opening and closing of the session, the adoption of the agenda and other organizational issues.

In particular, international experts made presentations on the Sustainable Development Goals until 2030, monitoring of statistical programs, prospects for economic statistics, national accounts, international trade, business and price statistics. Participants of the event were presented with changes made to existing methods.

Information was also provided on the international comparison program, environmental and economic calculations, agricultural statistics, demographic statistics, natural population statistics, health statistics, gender statistics, refugee statistics, public administration statistics, as well as on the development of regional statistics, official statistical publications and best practices in managing statistical systems, etc.

During the 51st session, issues of information and communication technology statistics, integration of statistical and geomagnetic information, open data, methods of work of the statistical Commission, the International day of statistics and other important issues were discussed.

Members of the official delegation also took part in a meeting organized by the center for statistical, economic and social research and training of the Organization of Islamic cooperation for Islamic countries (SESRIC). The Republic of Uzbekistan was also included in the Executive body (Bureau) of the statistical Commission of the Islamic cooperation organization. During the period from the 9th to the 10th session, the Chairman of the State Statistics Committee, B. Begalov, was approved as the Deputy Chairman of the Bureau.

During his visit to New York, the Chairman of the State Statistics Committee met with representatives of international organizations such as the UN Statistics Department, the CIS Statistical Committee, the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund and UNICEF, as well as national statistical offices of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Serbia, India, the UAE and Turkey. Issues of bilateral cooperation were discussed at the meetings.

In order to establish long-term and effective cooperation with the Statistical office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS), a Memorandum of understanding and cooperation in the field of statistics was signed.

At the same time, a Memorandum of understanding and cooperation was signed between the State Statistics Committee and the Ministry of statistics and implementation of India's best practices programs, including the widespread introduction of information and communication technologies and the effective use of opportunities, data visualization, and the introduction of statistical and geometric data integration in the field of statistics.

The meetings held during this visit with representatives of international organizations and statistical agencies, as well as the best practices of developed countries in general, serve as an important factor in further improving the national statistical system of our country.