TASHKENT, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discussed the prospects for further strengthening practical cooperation between Uzbekistan and Serbia, said the press service of the Uzbek president on Tuesday.
With the participation of official delegations, negotiations between the two leaders took place at the Kuksaroy residence in Tashkent, the press service said in a statement.
Mirziyoyev emphasized that the first summit in the history of cooperation between the two countries will be historic and bring Uzbek-Serbian relations to "a qualitatively new level."
"Your official visit in the year of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations is a historic event. Uzbekistan has great sympathy for Serbia. Our peoples are bound by strong ties of friendship and a similar mentality," said Mirziyoyev.
The statement said that priority attention is being paid to increasing trade turnover and preparing a comprehensive cooperation program in key sectors such as mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, the chemical industry, information technology and digitalization, the agro-industrial complex, tourism, and others.
According to the statement, the importance of developing new transport routes between Central Asia and the Balkans, including within the Trans-Caspian corridor, was noted.
To promote the economic cooperation agenda between the two countries, an agreement was reached to hold the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission in Tashkent next year, it said.
Cooperation issues in the areas of organized labor migration, culture, humanitarian affairs and education were discussed, the statement said. ■
