YAKUTSK, December 23. Dunyo IA/. Diplomats from the Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Vladivostok facilitated the return of a young Uzbek citizen, S.M., born in 2024, to her homeland, reports Dunyo IA correspondent.

Uzbek diplomats from the Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Vladivostok assisted in the safe return of a young Uzbek citizen, S.M., born in 2024, to her homeland.

The girl’s mother, O.M., a native of Syrdarya region, was sentenced by the Yakutsk City Court to nine years in prison for involvement in large-scale drug trafficking. S.M. was born in the medical facility of Pre-trial Detention Center No.1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and was subsequently placed in the Republican Centre for Family Assistance.

When the mother arrived in Yakutia to reclaim her child, she sought assistance from the Uzbek Consulate in Vladivostok. The consulate coordinated with the Ministry of External Relations and Peoples’ Affairs of the Republic of Sakha and the Department of Guardianship and Custody of the Yakutsk City Administration, requesting support for the child’s repatriation to Uzbekistan with her grandmother.

Diplomats issued the necessary travel documents for both grandmother and granddaughter. With the support of Russian authorities, S.M. was formally handed over to her grandmother.

Through the assistance of Uzbek diaspora activists in the Republic of Sakha, plane tickets were arranged for the route Yakutsk-Novosibirsk-Tashkent and on December 19, grandmother and granddaughter departed safely for Uzbekistan.