The UAE delegation included the Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, the Minister of Economy Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, and Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Omar Sultan Al Olama.
At the beginning of the conversation, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum expressed his sincere gratitude to the President of Uzbekistan for the warm welcome and conveyed warm greetings from the UAE President Sheikh Mohamed Al Nahyan, and the Prime Minister of the country, Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum.
At the meeting, special attention was paid to forming a new long-term agenda for mutually beneficial cooperation in key areas such as investment, innovative development, green energy, infrastructure, education, healthcare, ecology, digital transformation, tourism, and others.
The fruitful results of the joint forum on unlocking the potential of mutually beneficial cooperation, bilateral intergovernmental and interdepartmental negotiations held today were highly appreciated.
An agreement was reached on adopting a roadmap for developing full-scale cooperation in strategic sectors.
It should be noted that the UAE is one of Uzbekistan’s key partners in the Asian region.
The latest high-level contacts took place during the Global Climate Summit in Dubai last December.
Trade turnover in 2023 increased by 21 percent to $626 million. Over 320 enterprises with UAE capital operate in Uzbekistan. The portfolio of ongoing and prospective investment projects is about $20 billion.
