On February 3, a meeting was held between the Central Asian Foreign Ministry and US Secretary of State M. Pompeo in the framework of the “C5 + 1” format meetings. On its web page the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan published a joint statement of the ministerial meeting “C5 + 1”.

International media reported that the United States is likely to throw its weight behind Pakistan at the forthcoming plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris and save it at least from being placed in the “black list”, if not removed from the “grey-list.” The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is holding its plenary in Paris from 16 to 21 February 2020,

The BBC reported on the 20th of January that one third of the world’s poorest girls are denied access to school. The age ranges spoken about are between 10 and 18. The UNICEF report concluded, “poverty and discrimination were denying an education to millions of young people with a "crippling learning crisis" for impoverished families, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Guardian newspaper reported on the 10th of February that, “A Russian court has issued harsh sentences to seven antifascist and anarchist activists in a controversial domestic terrorism case marred by claims that investigators tortured the defendants to elicit confessions,” and called these sentences ‘monstrous’ in its headline.