To fulfill the commitments, promised by Uzbek officials to the President of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani regarding cooperation in the field of Communications and Information technologies at the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan, the Communications and Information Technology minister of Afghanistan Shahzad Aryobee met with the minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology of Uzbekistan. Azim Akhmedkhadjaev, while Afghan and Uzbek Telecom officials were also present, on Monday, April 2, 2018.
Following the meeting the counterparts signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Strategic Cooperation which provides for bilateral cooperation, in particular with regard to the Internet Bandwidth, Fiber Optic, Regional Communications, Internet Transmission, as well as cooperation in terms of development and promotion of the E-government system, training of Afghan students in Uzbek universities - TUIT and INHA in Tashkent.
