Uzbek president en route to Astana

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has left the country to pay a state visit to Kazakhstan at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The current state and prospects of development of the Uzbek-Kazakh relations in political, trade, economic, investment, transport, communication, cultural, humanitarian and other spheres, as well as topical issues of regional and international agenda will be discussed during Mirziyoyev’s meetings and high-level negotiations, the Uzbek National News Agency reported.

As part of the visit, it is also planned to hold Uzbekistan’s national industrial exhibition in Astana and a joint business forum with participation of delegations of the two countries’ businesses.

A package of bilateral documents of interstate, intergovernmental and interdepartmental nature, as well as big commercial contracts, aimed to bring the Uzbek-Kazakh cooperation to a qualitatively new level, are also planned to be signed during the visit.