 During this time she helped on with organizing the Tashkent International Conference "Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone" (CANWFZ).In 1998 and from 2000 to 2003, Karimova served as counselor at Uzbekistan’s Mission to the United Nations in New York.From 2003 until 2005 she was minister-counselor at the Uzbek embassy in Moscow, and served as adviser to the minister of foreign affairs from 2005 to 2008.