Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to pay official visits to Uzbekistan and South Korea next week. The visits, set to take place on April 29-May 3, will focus on regional ties, while the economy is set to be the main topic on the agenda. Erdoğan, who will first go to Tashkent, will meet Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
According to a report in the Turkish daily Hürriyet, Erdoğan's agenda will be the investments to be made in Uzbekistan after the leadership's decision to open up its economy. The two leaders gave the first sign of huge investments in Uzbekistan during Mirziyoyev's state visit to Ankara in October last year.
"I hope we will achieve this with our common projects in the field of tourism. We will carry out a giant project for ski tourism there with a Turkish contractor," President Erdoğan said.
Besides the cultural and tourism investments, investment infrastructures in agriculture and the food industry, construction materials, food processing and agricultural machinery, automotive main and subindustry, textile, pharmaceutical industry, chemistry and mining will be among the other topics discussed during President Erdoğan's contacts in Uzbekistan.
