Tajik Prime Minister Qohir Rasoulzoda will pay a working visit to Tashkent in early November, a source in the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him the main purpose of the visit is for the Tajik prime minister to attend the next session of the CIS Council of Heads of Government that will take place in the Uzbek capital on November 3.
While in Tashkent, Tajik prime minister is scheduled to hold a number of bilateral meetings. He is expected to hold talks with Uzbek counterpart Abdulla Aripov and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the source said.
Meanwhile the CIS Executive Committee says the upcoming meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government will discuss issues related to further expansion of collaboration between the CIS member nations.
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 this month.
