Shavkat Mirziyoyev has received the delegation led by the Minister of Hajj and Umrah Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tawfig F. AlRabiah, the press service of the President reports.
The Minister of Hajj and Umrah affairs conveyed to the head of state the sincere greetings and best wishes of the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince, Prime Minister of the country Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud.
Tawfig F. AlRabiah noted that this visit of the Saudi delegation is a continuation of the high-level agreements reached during the historic state visit to Saudi Arabia in August 2022.
During the conversation, an agreement was reached on doubling the annual Hajj quota for citizens of Uzbekistan to 24,000 people, and the Umrah quota to 100,000 people.
Also, the parties considered supporting the implementation of trade, economic and investment cooperation projects, introducing best practices in the field of digitization, increasing the number of visits of Saudi tourists to Uzbekistan, taking into account the introduction of a visa-free procedure for the stay of Saudi tourists in our country, the two leading countries issues of establishing partnerships between research centres.
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