The Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan and Turkey discussed topical issues of cooperation

    International cooperation 25 January 2023 1022

    On January 24, 2023, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Tashkent, the heads of the foreign ministries of Uzbekistan and Turkey, Bakhtiyor Saidov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, held a bilateral meeting.

    M. Cavusoglu said that Uzbekistan's chairmanship in the ECO served to strengthen mutually beneficial partnership within the Organization and increase its authority on the world stage.

    The schedule and organizational aspects of upcoming bilateral events, including regular meetings of the Strategic Planning Group at the level of foreign ministers and the Uzbek-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation, were considered.

    The current situation in Afghanistan and other issues of regional policy were discussed.

    The meeting also discussed the expansion of cultural and humanitarian exchanges between the two countries, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan reports.