Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is expected to pay visit to Tajikistan.
Vladimir Norov, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan, has written about the upcoming visit of the Uzbek president to Tajikistan on his Facebook page.
Norov just said a few words about the forthcoming visit of Mirziyoyev to Tajikistan in the context of visits Uzbek leader had already paid to Central Asia’s nations.
Recall, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said that building mutually beneficial cooperation with Central Asia’s nations is the key priority of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy.
In late October, the presidents of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan exchanged messages of congratulations on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between their countries.
Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan were established on October 22, 1992. The Embassy of the Republic of Tajikistan in Tashkent has functioned since 1995.
The legal foundation of bilateral Tajikistan-Uzbekistan relations includes 111 contracts and agreements signed at the interstate, intergovernmental and interdepartmental levels in the period from 1992 to the present.
Signs of a thaw in relations between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan emerged in September last year. In the years since independence, bilateral relations have been plagued by mistrust, disputes over water resources and outright hostility. Both sides have adopted a series of punitive measures against each other. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has expressed interest in “resetting” relations with Tajikistan.
Regular flights between Dushanbe and Tashkent that were suspended in 1992 at Uzbek authorities’ initiative were resumed in April this year.
The major trade fair of Uzbekistan’s exports, including auto, was held in Dushanbe in April and the exhibition of Tajikistan’s industrial goods took place in Tashkent last month.
