Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – On 27 December 2022, the International Institute of Central Asia hosts an international conference on the topic: “Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Prospects for the development of strategic partnership and alliance”.

The event in a hybrid format from the Uzbek side was attended by the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan (MFA), the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS), the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade (MIFT), as well as foreign diplomatic corps accredited in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Kazakh side was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Uzbekistan Beibut Atamkulov, director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KISS) Yerkin Tukumov, experts from the leading think tanks of the two countries, etc.

During the conference, the main results of bilateral negotiations at the highest level in Tashkent, held in the framework of the state visit of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokaev in Uzbekistan.

In addition, issues of current global and regional trends, as well as new strategic prospects for cooperation in the fields of economy, industrial cooperation, transport, energy and water resources, as well as in the field of cultural and humanitarian interaction and regional cooperation, were considered.

The negotiations between the Heads of the two states on the broad scope of the agenda and the importance of the agreements reached have become a historic event that opened a fundamentally new page in Uzbek-Kazakh relations.

The most important outcome of the visit was the signing of the Treaty on Allied Relations between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan, which fully meets the fundamental interests of the two fraternal countries and peoples.

A solid package of bilateral documents on important areas of multifaceted cooperation has been adopted. Agreements and contracts worth US$8 billion were signed.

The talks held in Tashkent reaffirmed the readiness of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to comprehensively develop and enrich bilateral relations, to fill them with qualitatively new practical content.