Kyrgyzstan is our important strategic partner – President

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov held a meeting in a narrow circle at the state residence “Ala-Archa” in Bishkek.

The head of state expressed gratitude for the invitation and warm welcome, noting that the Uzbek-Kyrgyz cooperation has developed very effectively in the next two years.

"Kyrgyzstan is our important strategic partner, our closest neighbor and a friend tested by time,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

It was noted that the parties have reached a completely new level of mutual relations in the last two years. The completion of the delimitation of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border was recognized as a historical event.

During the negotiations, issues of development of bilateral political, trade-economic, investment, transport-communication, water-energy and interregional cooperation were discussed.

The head of Uzbekistan noted with pleasure that in the following years the volume of trade among themselves has increased seven times. At the same time last year, the turnover increased by 30% and reached $ 1.3 billion.

The governments of the two countries were instructed to work together to further increase sales and expand the nomenclature of mutual product delivery. Issues of implementation of new joint investment projects in the industrial, textile, energy, mining and agricultural sectors were considered.

To this end, the potential of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz Development Fund will be activated more actively.