Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Almazbek Atambayev hold meeting in Bishkek
05/09/2017 18:36
Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Almazbek Atambayev hold meeting in Bishkek
05/09/2017 18:36
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambayev held a meeting in Bishkek on 5 September.
According to the press service of the President of Kyrgyzstan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Almazbek Atambayev held a tet-a-tet meeting.
Almazbek Atambayev noted that this state visit of the President of Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan is a historic event for the peoples of the two countries.
“This is an event that our peoples have been waiting for more than 20 years. Today’s state visit of Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Kyrgyzstan will remove many questions, and in fact this visit opens a new era, a new era in the relations of our fraternal peoples. I am very glad to see you and I am grateful that you accepted my invitation,” Almazbek Atambaev said.
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev thanked President Almazbek Atambayev for invitation to visit Kyrgyzstan on a state visit, noting that today is a historic day.
“There were a lot of questions that for 25 years seemed to be solved, but they were not solved in the way that would be necessary for two friendly peoples. The spirit of our Samarkand meeting laid the foundation for our new relationship, from that day we began to cooperate, talk, from that day the meetings began which opened the way. Our peoples have been waiting for this day for years,” Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.
The President of Uzbekistan recalled the visits of the Kyrgyz delegation to Uzbekistan and the Uzbek delegation to Kyrgyzstan. “When the first delegation visited Uzbekistan, Ferghana, Andijan, Namangan all this historic day was greeted with joy. Because history would not forgive us if we did not put everything in its place. Great Chingiz Aitmatov said that our peoples are united by blood and speak the same language. This says everything, and we are obligated to embody everything in the realities of life,” Mirziyoyev said.
Uzbek President said new strategy of Uzbekistan and new leadership in its foreign policy is to establish close ties with neighboring states.
“Kyrgyzstan is a strategic partner, and in our foreign policy direction we have done everything in a short time so that we can answer correctly to the history. What happened today is the will of the two Presidents. This is a historic day. Today is a historic day, we are signing an agreement on the border, and after all, everything could remain as before, but by the will of heads of state we decided to turn this border into a border of friendship,” Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.
The President of Uzbekistan continued that it is necessary to strengthen parliamentary ties and people’s diplomacy. According to him, for the first time in the delegation there were four khokims of Uzbekistan - heads of border cities and Tashkent.
“I sincerely wish that our governors, khokims themselves will solve all the issues. We must create all conditions so that they solve all the problems themselves, and not wait for instructions from the center. Our delegation is also accompanied by a large group of entrepreneurs. The chairman of the commodity producers of Uzbekistan came with us, because we gave them great powers and now they are largely independent. I want both businessmen of Kyrgyzstan and entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan to meet without any obstacles. If we do not interfere with them, they will do everything themselves. I am convinced of this. Today there was a big business forum. We can jointly strengthen the competitiveness of our enterprises and master the markets of other countries. For this, we have all the prerequisites,” he said.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev stressed importance of this historic day for the two states. “We must do everything to ensure that this historic day every year is filled with those concrete deeds, which the peoples of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have duly appreciated. Only the people can appreciate us, and I very much want the people’s assessment to say that we began to live according to the history that was predetermined by our ancestors. In our history, there is a lot of co-operation and I am sure that we will never go without each other to the frontiers that our peoples set before us. And we together, peacefully, amicably, respecting each other, can achieve those tasks that life itself sets before us today,” Uzbek President said.
During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the whole complex of Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations and prospects for further development of bilateral cooperation.
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