17 June 2004 11:01
New Russo-Uzbek pact "not against third countries"
Tashkent, 16 June: Russia and Uzbekistan will provide one another with "most favourable conditions for
investment and privatization projects on their [respective] territories", the Russian-Uzbek strategic and
partnership agreement says. The document was signed on 16 June by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President
Islom [Islam] Karimov.
Moscow and Tashkent also agreed to carry out "the accelerated development of integration and cooperation in the
fields of energy, aircraft building, transport and communications, banking, power engineering and peaceful use of
nuclear energy".
In accordance with the agreement, the sides will cooperate "on a bilateral and multilateral basis in
implementing economic, humanitarian and other projects and programmes as part of integration processes in the Central
Asian region".
As for humanitarian cooperation, Russia and Uzbekistan "encourage, in every possible way, their national
education and science systems to be brought closer to each other". Direct contacts will be set up between
scientific and education establishments, as well as between creative communities.
The agreement says that "it is not directed against third countries and does not affect the rights and
obligations of the sides envisaged in other international agreement which they signed".
The agreement, which was struck for an indefinite period of time, will enter into force "from the date of the
last written notification saying the sides have completed their internal procedures needed for the agreement to enter
into force".
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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