Javlon Vakhabov, director of the International Institute of Central Asia (IICA), said on social networking site X that during a meeting with Turkmenistan's ambassador, Shadurdy Meredov, they discussed "ways to collaborate closely this year".
"Our countries are exploring yet more avenues of cooperation at Consultative meetings of Central Asian leaders, an initiative Uzbekistan put forward seven years ago."
According to the information, Turkmenistan was the first among others President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited right after he took his office in late 2016.
"The two nations sealed a strategic partnership agreement which has yielded its most visible results in trade. Over the past years the border procedures and travel rules have been significantly softened and simplified."
The International Institute of Central Asia (IICA), established on the initiative of the president of Uzbekistan in 2020, is the only state research institution in the region dedicated to interdisciplinary research on civilisational diversity and contemporary processes of sustainable development in Central Asia.
Eziz Boyarov
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