The European Union (EU) and Uzbekistan will sign an agreement on partnership and cooperation, backed up at the end of this year, the President of the European Council said.
“I hope to get you in Brussels at the end of this year to sign our partnership and cooperation agreement as a fruitful result of our conversations these days,” said Antonio Costa at the opening of a tripartite meeting in Samarcire with the President of the European Commission von Derian and the President of Uzbekistan, Shovkatat Mirziyev.
Euronews knows that the text of the agreement has already been completedNow let it go and send it to a legal review. However, The agreement may be signed in JuneField
The Assadov, Secretary of the Press of Mirziyoyev, said in his statement that Uzbekistan and the EU agreed to “promote joint programs and projects of cooperation in the field of innovation, green energy, mining, agriculture, transport, logistics, digitization and other areas”.
Assadov also announced that as part of conversations Agreement on the creation of the regional office of the European Investment Bank (Bei) in TashkentThe capital of the country is what she called the “important step” for the transformation of Uzbekistan into the “International Financial Center”.
The tripartite meeting took place the day before the greeting of the city of Uzbek The first UE-central summitWith the presence of the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Bikemenistan, as well as the president of the European Bank for the reconstruction and development and delegation of KISS.
Costa said that conversations and the summit “will open the new chapter“ in the history of the EU and the Asian country, “increasing the level of general partnership”.
Assadov, in turn, said that the topics for study will include reinforcing economic cooperation, transport interactions, sustainable development and ecology, as well as humanitarian cooperation.
“It is expected that the most important result of the summit will be the adoption of the Samarkanda Declaration, which will lead to a significant increase in the expansion of the constructive dialogue between Central Asia and the European Union, increasing cooperation in all areas and raises relations to the level of strategic partnership,” he added.
It is also expected that it will be signed by a statement about the intention of the necessary raw materials, which, according to senior EU employees, speaking, subject to anonymity, will be beneficial for both parties.
The EU will provide the rare lands necessary to increase its energy transition and strengthen its strategic autonomy, since China currently controls a significant part of the extraction and transformation of many of these materials. The region will also receive the necessary investments for the development of local industry.
The full agenda also includes the protection of multilaterality, general and regional security problems, tourism, interpersonal programs and Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Costa and von der Lein are expected to solve the problem of evading sanctions to the EU on Russia from a great invasion of Ukraine.
Some countries of Central Asia have won from the sale of Russia from European production items that are prohibited from entering the country.
“The meeting, again, is quite timely, given the new dynamics of peaceful conversations with Ukraine, which we observed in Er -iad,” said one of the responsible ones.