Uzbekistan, Russia to sign agreement on migration

27/11/2014 | Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Governments of Uzbekistan and Russia will start preparing an agreement on employment of citizens of Uzbekistan in the Russian Federation in 2015. The decision was made at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the two countries in Tashkent on 26 November.

The commission entrusted the relevant state bodies will exchange the proposals on the draft intergovernmental agreement on employment and recruitment of Uzbek citizens in Russia by late 2014, RIA Novosti.

It is planned to hold a meeting on relevant issues of labor migration in the first quarter of 2015, including the coordination of proposals for rapid exchange of information and mutual opening of representative offices in this area.

The sides’ positions will be worked out proceeding from the recommendations by July 2015. They will form the basis of the forthcoming agreement.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozakh said that the document will allow to ease tension on labour migrants from Uzbekistan in Russia.

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