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Belarus, Uzbekistan encouraged to update cooperation roadmap

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BISHKEK, 25 October (BelTA) – Belarus and Uzbekistan need to update their cooperation roadmap. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the statement as he met with Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, BelTA has learned.

Roman Golovchenko said: “I am glad to meet with you and talk over the development of our relations in detail. Results of trade and economic cooperation are truly good. We’ve raised trade turnover beyond $0.5 billion. Absolutely all the conditions for doubling the figure are available. Mutual trade is balanced. Both Belarus’ export to Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan’s shipments to Belarus are on the rise. It is a good tendency, which means that we have built mutually complementary commodity flows.”

The prime minister remarked that the two governments face a number of important tasks. “It is necessary to hold a session of the intergovernmental commission. It is our main working body, which has to work out a new agenda in order to expand cooperation. Leonid Zayats is the head of the intergovernmental commission on the Belarusian side. He will be responsible for this work,” Roman Golovchenko said.

Updating the roadmap designed to guide the advancement of cooperation between Belarus and Uzbekistan in the next few years and saturating it with new cooperation avenues are the second task. “I mean manufacturing cooperation, cooperation in agriculture, cooperation in humanitarian affairs. I suggest working out a draft of this document and discussing it at a session of the commission,” Roman Golovchenko said.

Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko arrived in Bishkek to participate in a session of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, and the CIS Heads of Government Council.

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