President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

On July 21 this year, a joint meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for working with WTO and the Negotiating Group on accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the World Trade Organization was held via videoconference. The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Commission, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan S. Umurzakov.

On July 22, 2020, Moscow hosted a meeting of the Commission on Economic Issues under the CIS Economic Council under the chairmanship of Uzbekistan, MFA reports.

Issues of economic reconstruction of Afghanistan, practical aspects of expanding cooperation in transport, energy, trade, agriculture, education and health were discussed during the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Economics of the format of trilateral cooperation “Uzbekistan – United States – Afghanistan”, held on July 21, 2020 under the chairmanship of the Uzbek side.

On July 21, 2020, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sherzod Asadov met with Deputy Foreign Minister – Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria Gregor Kössler, in Vienna, Uzbekistan MFA reports.

On July 21 this year, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov held talks with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Uzbekistan, Jiang Yan. During the conversation, issues of bilateral cooperation in countering the pandemic, as well as a number of aspects of current and further cooperation in investment, trade and transport were considered, via videoconference.

On July 21, 2020, Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev held online talks with Special Representative of Japan for Afghanistan, Katsuhito Takahashi, Uzbekistan MFA reports.

The second meeting of the subcommittee on cooperation in transport of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation has been held via videoconference.

A delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó, who arrived in Uzbekistan, met with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov.

On July 16, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó.

On July 14 this year, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan Santosh Jha, who is completing his diplomatic mission.

On July 14, 2020, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Furkat Sidikov, held talks with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt Hany Selim, via videoconference.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has congratulated President Emmanuel Macron on the French national holiday – Bastille Day.