Kyrgyz, Uzbek presidents sign declaration of strategic partnership

BISHKEK. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Over 20 documents, including a declaration of strategic partnership, have been signed at the end of a state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Kyrgyzstan, an Interfax correspondent said in a report on Friday.

Twenty-four bilateral documents, including a declaration of comprehensive strategic partnership, have been signed in the course of the state visit to boost Kyrgyz-Uzbek interaction. Mirziyoyev and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov are the declaration signatories.

Also signed were an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the prevention and mitigation of emergencies, an agreement between the energy ministries of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on cooperation in energy and coal industry development, and protocols between the Kyrgyz Customs Service and the Customs Committee of the Uzbek Economy and Finance Ministry on the procedure for exchanging customs statistics data in mutual trade and cooperation in the prevention, detection and stopping of suspicious financial transactions by foreign economic operators.

The governments of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on cooperation in the production of cars and commercial vehicles in Kyrgyzstan.

In addition, the sides signed a protocol on the exchange of instruments of ratification of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek treaty on certain sections of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border signed in Bishkek on November 3, 2022, and the intergovernmental program of strategic trade and economic partnership for 2023-2025.

The energy ministries of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of mutual understanding in the construction of the Chatkal hydropower plant cascade (in the Chatkal district of the Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan).

The presidents exchanged instruments of ratification of the border agreement, thus finalizing the border delimitation process, at the end of the state visit of the Uzbek president to Kyrgyzstan.