Uzbekistan, Russia to adopt program to enlarge partnership between leading businesses

TASHKENT. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov discussed expanding practical partnership between leading Uzbek and Russian businesses at a meeting on Monday.

"The parties acknowledged the importance of continuing to increase mutual trade and implement cooperation programs in the industrial, fuel and energy, chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, food, and other sectors. They agreed to draw up a bilateral program for enlarging practical partnership between leading Uzbek and Russian businesses," the Uzbek presidential press service said.

Mirziyoyev and Manturov reviewed the principal outcomes of Sunday's meeting of the intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation, including mutually beneficial cooperation projects in the trade-economic and investment fields, it said.

Manturov and Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister and Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Jamshid Xojaev hosted the 23rd meeting of the Russian-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation in Tashkent on Sunday, at which the parties signed a substantial package of bilateral documents stipulating key agreements.