Russia, Uzbekistan to strengthen industrial cooperation, including automotive industry - Putin

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will ask governments to strengthen industrial cooperation, including the automotive sector. "We agreed to give further assignments to our governments on increasing industrial cooperation and expanding joint manufacturing of products with high added value," Putin said after bilateral talks. "Plans of Rostec, Rosselmash, GAZ Group and their Uzbekistani partners on launching new projects in automotive sector, toolmaking, civil aviation and pharmaceuticals were supported," the Russian President said. "It is natural that high attention was paid in the course of fairly intense talks to issues of deepening Russia-Uzbekistan trade and economic cooperation. Our states are proactively developing cooperation in this critical sphere, considering the traditionally high degree of complementarity of Russian and Uzbekistani economics," Putin said. "Russia is a leading trade partner of Uzbekistan; a large-scale program of economic interaction until 2019 was specially developed and is underway now," he added. The level of bilateral interaction in the energy sphere is high, the Russian President said. "Russia is buying over 5 bln cubic meters of natural gas in Uzbekistan; our companies Gazprom and Lukoil are implementing large-scale hydrocarbon production projects in the republic, and Power Machines company helps to modernize critical assets of Uzbekistan’s electric power sector," Putin added. Read more