TASHKENT, Jul 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, said yesterday that, Uzbekistan values its high-level strategic communication and coordination with China, and China will always be Uzbekistan’s reliable friend and partner.
During a meeting with visiting Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, Mirziyoyev expressed heartfelt gratitude to China, for its valuable help to Uzbekistan in promoting reform and opening up, poverty reduction and fighting the pandemic, and its strong support for Uzbekistan in maintaining social stability.
He said, Uzbekistan and China uphold the principles of mutual trust and mutual assistance, mutual benefit and good-neighbourly friendship, and pushed bilateral relations to new levels.
Wang said, China is ready to work with Uzbekistan to take the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties as a new starting point, take the important consensus of the two heads of state as the guide, speed up the alignment of development strategies, increase mutual support, build on the past, upgrade the quality of China-Uzbekistan relations and bring more benefits to the two countries and two peoples.
“China and Uzbekistan are friendly neighbours and comprehensive strategic partners. The two countries are closely linked as lips and teeth and share weal and woe in security,” Wang said. “China firmly supports Uzbekistan in pursuing its goal of building ‘a new Uzbekistan,’ supports Uzbekistan in safeguarding national sovereignty and social stability, and opposes interference by any force in Uzbekistan’s internal affairs.”
Mirziyoyev said, he is willing to discuss with China ways and connotations of building a community of shared future between Uzbekistan and China, looking forward to speeding up the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway and actively carrying out connectivity cooperation.
Wang said, China is willing to continue to support Uzbekistan’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) chairmanship, to ensure the full success of this year’s SCO summit and achieve greater development of the organisation.
Also yesterday, Wang held talks with Acting Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Vladimir Norov.– NNN-XINHUA
