Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán will travel to Uzbekistan on 30 March to meet President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Talks will focus on strengthening bilateral ties, and to discuss the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.

A delegation of Hungarian businesspeople will accompany PM Orbán to Tashkent and negotiate economic and trade opportunities with potential Uzbek partners. The prime minister had been scheduled the following day to attend a meeting of the Turkic Council in Turkestan, Kazakhstan, but this has been moved online due to the pandemic.