Tashkent: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov discussed with Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar a priority areas of bilateral cooperation. According to the press service of the Uzbek Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade, during a videoconference the sides debated the implementation of previously reached agreements, as well as prospects for expanding partnerships in agriculture and industrial cooperation.
In particular, the deputy prime ministers of the two countries touched upon the implementation of the Road Map on expanding and deepening cooperation between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, agreed in November this year in Tashkent, including 22 projects of industrial cooperation in the fields of agro-industrial complex, agricultural engineering, light, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as production of construction materials. Special attention was paid to measures to establish cooperation between agricultural enterprises of the two countries in the field of cultivation of certain types of crops, creation of intensive gardens and joint livestock breeding complexes. An agreement was reached to establish joint wholesale and distribution centers to organize exports of fruit and vegetable products to promising markets. Separately, the sides reviewed the prospects for cooperation in joint scientific developments, organization of contacts at the level of research institutes of the two countries in order to share experience and accelerate the development of seed production, as well as the production of highly productive varieties of grains and oilseeds. –PNP
