Moscow is not urging Tashkent to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), where the country has an observer status, stated by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, TASS reported.
“We are not rushing Uzbekistan to make the final choice [on joining the EAEU],” he said on the sidelines of the conference “Uzbekistan and Russia Facing Development and Security Challenges at a New Historical Stage of Cooperation”.
During his speech at the congress of the Liberal Democratic Party, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that the country would take concrete practical steps to deepen the process of joining the World Trade Organization and integration with the EAEU.
On December 11, 2020, Uzbekistan received observer status in the EAEU. The decision was made during a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council with the participation of the heads of the organization's member states, at which the President of Uzbekistan also made remarks.
