ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Friday agreed to promote wisdom and technology liaison and cooperation between the youths to profit the people of the two countries.
The bilateral ties were bandied in a meeting between President Arif Alvi and his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who visited the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Friday before belting up his two-day functionary stint to Islamabad.
The two leaders noted progress on collaboration in education, culture, security, and defense and reiterated commitment to continue pursuing common pretensions of profitable development. A wide range of issues of bilateral interest and important indigenous and transnational matters were bandied.
At the meeting, President Alvi stressed prospects of indigenous integration and connectivity to Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries through Pakistan’s seaports. He expressed satisfaction on the upward line of bilateral ties and reiterated the desire to promote multifaceted cooperation in all spheres, including political, trade, profitable, defense, security, connectivity, education, and artistic exchanges.
He developed Pakistan’s sweats for enhanced engagement with Central Asia within the frame of the Vision Central Asia policy.
Trans-Afghan road, he said, would be one similar design to establish consolidated land connectivity. The Ministry of Railroads of Pakistan and the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan had inked a memorandum of understating a day agone. Still, President Alvi said, peace and stability in Afghanistan were vital to reap the tips of land connectivity. A peaceful Afghanistan would contribute to the profitable progress and substance of the region and beyond, he added.
He also underscored the significance of air connectivity for boosting tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
Mr. Alvi lauded the signing of the common protestation on‘ Coming Way in Strategic Partnership between Pakistan and Uzbekistan’s well as the memorandum of understanding and agreements in multiple areas. The signing of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) would open new avenues of enhancing bilateral trade, he observed. The sides before inked PTA and agreed on an action plan of practical measures ( road chart) to develop cooperation in security.
President Alvi also acquainted his Uzbek counterpart with the situation in India Immorally Enthralled Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting was followed by a luncheon hosted in honor of President Mirziyoyev. The Uzbek chairman, who came on Thursday along with a high-position delegation comprising ministers and businessmen on the assignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan, latterly returned home.
On Thursday, a number of agreements and MoUs were inked by the two sides. A Scowl was inked between Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Tourism and Sport and Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony to promote passage tourism. Another Scowl was signed between the two countries in the field of terrain and climate change.
The major visit marked the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of political relations between Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
The two countries enjoy major brotherly relations, marked by collective respect and embedded in a common faith, participated in history and artistic affections.
Pakistan and Uzbekistan have been nearly uniting at indigenous and transnational fora, especially at the United Nations, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Economic Cooperation Organisation, and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
