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- 24.02.2023 08:48:00
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Uzbekistan next week to discuss the development of cooperation on a number of bilateral and regional issues. It will also participate in a meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the countries of the region in the C5+1 format.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and India from February 28 to March 3, the press service of the US State Department reported.
Starting his journey from Astana, he will participate in the C5+1 (Central Asian countries + USA) ministerial meeting with representatives of all five countries in the region "to confirm the US loyalty to the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Central Asian states, as well as to cooperate with the region in search of solutions to common global problems."
At the C5+1 ministerial meeting, issues of strengthening economic, energy, environmental and security cooperation between the United States, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be discussed, the message said.
Later, Anthony Blinken will come to Tashkent, where it is planned to hold negotiations with the authorities on "further development of cooperation on a number of bilateral and regional issues." This will be his first visit to Uzbekistan.
On March 1, he will leave for New Delhi, where the G20 foreign ministers meeting will discuss issues of strengthening multilateral relations and deepening cooperation in the fields of food and energy security, sustainable development, Drug Control, global health, humanitarian aid and disaster response.
