First meeting of Supreme Council for Strategic Partnership of Uzbekistan, Turkey to be held in Ankara

The first meeting of the Supreme Council for Strategic Partnership of Uzbekistan and Turkey, chaired by the presidents, will be held in Ankara this year, Trend reports citing the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov and Turkey Mevlut Cavushoglu agreed on that on August 5 at the first meeting of the Joint Strategy Planning Group.

In preparation for the meeting of heads of state, the ministers discussed the state and prospects of developing bilateral relations in the political, trade, economic, tourism, cultural, humanitarian and other fields.

The presidents of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to create a council during a meeting in Tashkent in April 2018.

As a result of the negotiations, an agreement was reached on holding the second meeting of the Joint Strategy Planning Group chaired by the Foreign Ministers of the two states in 2020 in Tashkent.

After the meeting, Abdulaziz Kamilov and Mevlut Cavusoglu signed a cooperation program between the Foreign Ministries of Uzbekistan and Turkey for 2020–2021, which provides for regular inter-MFA consultations in such areas as trade, investment, tourism, energy, transport, security, education and other issues, as well as cooperation within international and regional organizations.

At the end of 2018, trade between the two countries increased by 40.5 percent and amounted to $2.2 billion. The results of 1H2019 show that the trade turnover between the countries amounted to $1.14 billion, which exceeds the figures for the same period of 2018 by 22 percent. The number of companies with Turkish capital increased by 50 percent and amounted to 1081.