Viet Nam, Uzbekistan review progress of bilateral cooperation

The two officials reviewed the realization of high-level commitments and agreements, and charted directions and measures to promote bilateral ties across all fields, especially economy and trade, investment, energy, oil and gas, industry, mining, transport, agriculture, textiles and garments, education and training, and tourism, in the coming period.

Both sides expressed their satisfactions with the implementation of the action plan for the development of Viet Nam–Uzbekistan relations during the 2025–2026 period.

Tran emphasized that Viet Nam expects to further promote its traditional friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with Uzbekistan. He called on both countries' governments and relevant ministries to further complete the legal framework and create mechanisms and favorable conditions for their agencies, organizations, and businesses to expand collaboration, increase investment and connect the two markets.

The two sides should soon finalize and sign agreements on education cooperation, visa exemption for holders of various types of passports, additional protocols to the agreement on avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax evasion, and promote the early establishment of representative offices in each other's territories, suggested Tran.

The Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister underlined the need to translate cooperation directions into practical projects in both Viet Nam and Uzbekistan to fully leverage each side's potential and strengths and participate more deeply, with higher quality and efficiency, in regional and global value chains.

He urged the Government of Uzbekistan to soon organize an investment promotion conference to introduce cooperation opportunities to Vietnamese enterprises.

Both sides should also step up transport cooperation, enhance multimodal transport connectivity, especially via the use of Viet Nam's international transit routes and seaports, encourage their airlines to open more direct routes and increase flight frequencies while strengthening collaboration in education and training, student exchanges, and local-to-local linkages, said Tran.

Khodjaev, for his part, voiced his support for Viet Nam in expanding cooperation in oil and gas exploration and production in Uzbekistan, and strengthening cooperation in investment, construction, metallurgy, agriculture, particularly agricultural processing, wet-rice cultivation, sericulture, and textiles and garments.

He also suggested Viet Nam and Uzbekistan mull over the establishment of joint ventures in industry and manufacturing and construction of modern urban areas and new-generation industrial parks.

The Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister vowed to support the opening of a direct air route between Ha Noi and Tashkent and expansion of cooperation between the two countries' airlines and promote connectivity among tourism enterprises to attract tourists to each other's markets./.