On November 26, 2020, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the President of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Lee Mi-kyung, in Seoul, the ministry said.
The parties reportedly discussed the ties between Uzbekistan and KOICA and the ways to further advance them.
The Minister Kamilov noted that KOICA is one of Uzbekistan’s key international partners in the implementation of important socio-economic programs. In 1995-2019, the country implemented projects worth about US$125 million in education, healthcare, energy, agriculture and water management, transport, information technologies and other areas. Within the framework of these projects, more than 70 experts and 500 KOICA volunteers worked in Uzbekistan, and more than 2 thousand representatives of ministries and agencies of Uzbekistan were trained in the Republic of Korea.
The parties also exchanged views on key joint projects within the framework of the signed Cooperation Program for 2020-2022, enhancing collaboration in education and personnel training.
