Mr. Abdulaziz Kamilov, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan visited India. Dr. S Jaishankar and Mr. Kamilov held a bilateral meeting about the Strategic Partnership between the two countries and agreed to work towards early conclusion of the Feasibility Study to be jointly conducted by the two sides to begin negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement. Jaishankar reiterated the need for early operationalization of the USD 200 million of Line of Credit extended by India to Uzbekistan for which Uzbek side is in the process of finalizing necessary details of the identified projects. They praised the India-Central Asia Dialogue, which had been held in Uzbekistan in 2019 and will be held in India this year.
