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Uzbekistan’s Mirziyoyev to visit Kazakhstan in March

Uzbekistan Materials 23 February 2017 17:11 (UTC +04:00)

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Feb. 23

By Demir Azizov – Trend:

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev plans to pay the first state visit as head of state to Kazakhstan in March, said Uzbek First Deputy Prime Minister Achilbay Ramatov.

He made the remarks at a meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission on the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan cooperation, held in Tashkent Feb. 23.

Ramatov said the intergovernmental commission meeting is being considered as “an important preparatory event to elaborate joint practical measures to fill the agenda of forthcoming high-level meetings with specific and important mutually beneficial projects.”

At the meeting, the Kazakh delegation was headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Askar Mamin.

The Kazakh diplomatic mission in Tashkent said it is planned to discuss the bilateral strategic partnership and its further activization, trade, economic, transportation and logistics cooperation, etc. as part of the visit.

Trade turnover between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan amounted to more than $2 billion in 2016.

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