August 18, 2018, Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Within the framework of the state visit of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to the Republic of Uzbekistan, negotiations with the delegation of Tajikistan headed by Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan Shavkat Bobozoda with the aim of strengthening trade, economic and cooperative partnership between the two countries were held at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 

The Uzbek side was headed by the Minister of Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan, Jamshid Khodjaev.

Representatives of large industry associations and companies of the two countries took part in the meeting, particularly in the mining and metallurgical, textile, construction, fruit and vegetable, pharmaceutical, electrical, transport, trade, oil and gas and other areas.

Prospective directions of cooperation in industrial and commercial sectors, improvement of logistics, preparation of investment and trade agreements, as well as opening of joint ventures were discussed on the agenda.

As the participants of the meeting noted, such a dialogue helps to establish close cooperation ties between the enterprises of the two countries. The two sides stressed their commitment to provide all kinds of support and promote the establishment of cooperation in the spheres of industry and trade.

The sides reached an agreement on further study and elaboration of proposals on enhancing cooperation between the sectoral enterprises of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.