KABUL (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov on August 27 met with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul where they discussed issues of mutual interest between the two nations with a special focus on major economic, regional and transit projects, Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process and the fight against terrorism, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
According to a statement issued by the Afghan Presidential Palace, Ghani and Kamilov also discussed the implementation of a railway project.
“Speaking about the completion of studies regarding railway and purchase of electrical equipment from Uzbekistan, President Ghani and the Uzbek foreign minister agreed that in coordination with delegations from the two countries, work must start on the projects the two countries previously agreed upon and on how to bolster Afghan and Uzbek economies and the regional economy,” the statement read.
Kamilov said that his country stands with the Afghan government regarding the Afghan-owned peace process in light of the Tashkent conference and Kabul Process conference.
Ghani thanked the Uzbek leadership for supporting the Afghan-led peace process.
Ghani also stressed the need for Afghanistan-Uzbekistan’s long-term cooperation agreement to be finalized as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Abdullah’s office said in a statement that Afghanistan strongly values the expansion of trade relations between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
In December, Ghani and his Uzbek counterpart, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, signed a bilateral cooperation agreement in Tashkent based on which the two countries agreed to expand their bilateral, economic and transit relations.
Afghan and Uzbek officials also signed more than 20 agreements which include economic, transit, security, electricity, agriculture, health and higher education cooperation between the two countries.
