Uzbek Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu to discuss a number of issues of Uzbek-American cooperation, progress in implementing previously reached agreements and a schedule of upcoming joint events.
During the meeting, the parties focused to deepening cooperation in the political, diplomatic, trade, economic, investment spheres, as well as within the framework of regional cooperation. The possibilities of expanding joint programs and initiatives for the development of human resources were considered, Dunyo reported.
Donald Lu welcomed the visit to Tashkent on August 20-23 of a delegation of the US Congress led by the co-chairman of the Uzbekistan Caucus in Congress, Republican Congressman from Mississippi Trent Kelly.
According to him, the visit of U.S congressman, which became the seventh trip of members of the U.S. Congress to Uzbekistan since 2017, testified to the high dynamics of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two countries, and it has a steady tendency to further expand and deepen.
The parties stressed the commitment of Uzbekistan and the United States to continue cooperation within the C5+1 format in order to achieve concrete results in the areas of infrastructure, energy, transport, environmental protection and combating climate change.
At the end of the meeting, the parties commended the tangible progress achieved in the bilateral and regional partnership, and also expressed mutual readiness to actively develop a constructive dialogue based on the principles of taking into account each other's interests.
