Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid an official visit to Uzbekistan.
On May 29, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Prime Minister Meloni held talks in Samarkand.
The parties noted that trade turnover between Uzbekistan and Italy has grown almost threefold in recent years, the number of joint ventures and projects has doubled. Mutually beneficial cooperation has been established with leading Italian companies in metallurgy, electrical engineering, agriculture, livestock breeding, and tourism.
Cooperation priorities include innovative projects of private business, deep processing of critical minerals and agricultural raw materials, production of component bases for the automotive industry, products with a high conversion rate in the electrical engineering, energy, food, pharmaceutical, construction industries, creation of design centers for textile, leather, and furniture industries.
Such projects can be located in an industrial park to be created in the Tashkent region under the management of a European operator.
Special attention was paid to the development of full-scale scientific and technological cooperation in agriculture. The prospects for cooperation in the cultivation of grapes, saffron, olives, asparagus, creation of agro-laboratories, development of biotechnology and introduction of agricultural insurance were noted.
In order to promote new projects, the parties agreed to resume the work of the Intergovernmental Group and hold its meeting with a business forum.
As a result of the talks, Mirziyoyev and Meloni adopted a Joint Declaration on strengthening the relations of strategic partnership between the two countries.
In their presence a ceremony for the exchange of signed bilateral agreements was held:
– on the promotion and mutual protection of investments;
– on cooperation in the field of critical raw materials;
– on cooperation in the field of migration and mobility;
– on cooperation in the fields of sustainable development and environmental protection, as well as cultural heritage;
– on cooperation with the Climate Fund and the Italian Confederation of Agriculture;
– on partnership with the universities of Tuscia, Pisa and Turin.
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