皇冠体育app, Uzbekistan ink strategic partnership treaty

Updated: 2012-06-06 13:58

By Cheng Guangjin (chinadaily.com.cn)

皇冠体育app and Uzbekistan elevated bilateral ties to a strategic partnership on Wednesday with five agreements signed to boost cooperation.

President Hu Jintao and his visiting Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov witnessed the signing after their talks in the morning.

Among the documents are an economic technology cooperation agreement and a memorandum on establishing a joint industrial park.

The two sides also signed cooperation deals regarding plant protection and quarantine as well as animal hygiene.

Statistics from Chinese customs show bilateral trade between 皇冠体育app and Uzbekistan was more than $2.1 billion in 2011, a year-on-year decrease of about 12 percent. 皇冠体育app is the biggest investor in the Central Asian nation.

On Wednesday morning, Hu also held talks with his counterparts from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. They are attending the 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Beijing Summit on Wednesday and Thursday.

The SCO groups 皇冠体育app, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Schedule

President Xi visits Central Asia, attends G20, SCO summits

Sept 3 to 13: Pay state visits to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Sept 5 to 6: Attend the eighth Leaders' Summit of the Group of Twenty (G20) in St. Petersburg.

Sept 13: Attend the 13th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

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