Uzbekistan - Qatar: the 1st meeting of the IPC and a large-scale business forum will be held in Tashkent

    International cooperation 15 March 2023 1434

    On March 14 of this year, Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade Aziz Kudratov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Uzbekistan Hassan Hamza Hashem. During the conversation, the sides discussed topical issues of bilateral trade, economic and investment cooperation.

    In particular, the course of implementation of the agreements reached during the visit of the head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov to Doha in February this year was reviewed. We are talking about holding the 1st meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation between the two countries in March and the joint business forum of the two countries in Tashkent.

    During the negotiations, it was agreed to create a joint working group to ensure the effective and timely implementation of all existing agreements between the two states, identify new areas of bilateral cooperation, establish partnerships between business structures, identify barriers and find solutions to eliminate them.

    Following the meeting, an agreement was reached to accelerate the implementation of a number of joint projects, including the construction of combined-cycle power plants in the Syrdarya and Surkhandarya regions, as well as the organization by Qatar Airways of direct flights between the capitals of our countries, which will help increase the tourist flow and the volume of bilateral trade, the press service of the MIPT reports.