BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 27. The dynamic
progress achieved in cooperation between Central Asia and
Azerbaijan is ongoing. The consideration President Ilham Aliyev pays to
partnership with the every of Central Asian economies has led to
strengthening essential hyperlinks between the 2 main areas on the
international map.
Over the current years, relations between Uzbekistan and
Azerbaijan have reached a qualitatively new stage of improvement,
gaining “strategic depth”. The new prospects for mutually
helpful cooperation are opening up. The foundation for it is a
large-scale contractual and authorized framework, comprising over 130
interstate, intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements.
President Ilham Aliyev visited Uzbekistan 3 times simply over
the final yr – on June 21-22, with a state go to, on September
15-16, to took half within the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization member international locations in Samarkand as an honored visitor. The
third go to happened on November 10-11 on the event of the
Summit of the Organization of Turkic States.
During President Ilham Aliyev’s go to in June 2022, a lot of
vital paperwork defining the additional improvement of relations
between the 2 international locations have been signed. Among them is the
Declaration on Deepening Strategic Partnership and Increasing
Comprehensive Cooperation, which opens a brand new stage in bilateral
relations. This doc identifies crucial fields, such
because the growth of commerce and industrial cooperation. In addition
to move and logistics cooperation, the events agreed on the
joint improvement of the agricultural sector. Cooperation within the
navy and military-political sphere may even be one of many
priorities.
Meanwhile, the First Uzbek-Azerbaijani Interregional Forum was
held in Tashkent on February 25, with the help of the Ministry
of Investments, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan and the Ministry
of Economy of Azerbaijan.
Within the framework of the discussion board, the edges signed an
intergovernmental settlement on the institution of a $500 million
joint funding fund, which is able to play a big position in
financial cooperation, the implementation of latest joint funding
tasks, and the creation of latest job locations.
A lot of vital paperwork have been signed in the course of the discussion board.
A roadmap for 2023-2025 to increase sensible cooperation in commerce,
financial, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian spheres
was signed between the Tashkent Executive Power and the Baku
Executive Power Baku. Moreover, Azerbaijan’s Export and Investment
Promotion Agency (AZPROMO) and the Agency for Regulation of the
Alcohol and Tobacco Market and the Development of Winemaking of
Uzbekistan have signed a MoU.
Besides, Azerbaijan’s Small and Medium Business Development
Agency (SMBDA) has signed a MoU with Uzbek Economy Ministry on a
joint improvement of small and medium-sized enterprise, ladies’s
entrepreneurship, public-private partnerships, expertise alternate
and plenty of extra.
The signed paperwork additionally embody a MoU and cooperation
settlement between AzerGold CJSC and the Ministry of Mining and
Geology of Uzbekistan, a memorandum of cooperation between Mega
Invest Industrial and NABUCCO A&C corporations, in addition to
cooperation settlement between Cahan Industrial Complex LLC and
Azimut Plus firm.
Moreover, over the current years, the automotive trade turned
one of many important pillars of Azerbaijani-Uzbek partnership. On
September 17, 2021, Uzbek UzAuto Motors, along with the
Azerbaijani Azermash car manufacturing plant, launched
large-node meeting manufacturing of Chevrolet vehicles within the Hajigabul
district of Azerbaijan. As of right now, about 2,700 items of Chevrolet
vehicles have been produced on the plant.
In 2023, the edges set a purpose to extend manufacturing to five,000
vehicles by switching from large-node meeting manufacturing to a full
manufacturing cycle. In addition, UzAuto Motors launched the
manufacturing of latest fashions of Chevrolet Onix vehicles in 2023. The
automaker plans to launch greater than 50,000 items of this mannequin in
2023. By the top of March, Uzbekistan plans to launch the
manufacturing of Chevrolet Onix vehicles on the Azermash plant.
Given Azerbaijan’s location on the crossroads of Europe and
Asia, Uzbekistan considers the nation as a “information to the European
market”. In 2022, Uzbekistan despatched its first container block practice
to Europe through Azerbaijan through the CASCA+ multimodal transport route.
A block practice consisting of 91 containers of 20 toes every, with
copper focus, was transported from Baku to the Bulgarian port
of Burgas. The container practice plied the route with a complete size
of greater than 4 thousand kilometers “Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan –
Azerbaijan – Georgia – Bulgaria/Europe”. At the top of 2022, the
growth of cooperation between dry ports working in Uzbekistan
and the Baku Port was mentioned.
Meanwhile, the commerce turnover between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan
in 2022 amounted to $181.9 million. Exports from Uzbekistan to
Azerbaijan over the previous yr amounted to $132.3 million, whereas
imports accounted for $49.5 million. In January 2023 alone, the
commerce turnover between the 2 international locations exceeded $11 million. At
the identical time, the edges are geared toward boosting the bilateral commerce
to over $1 billion over the following 5 years.
The variety of joint ventures has quadrupled lately.
There are 238 enterprises with Azerbaijani capital working in
Uzbekistan, engaged in commerce, mechanical engineering and
metalworking, finance and insurance coverage, actual property transactions,
vitality, companies, jewellery manufacturing and restore, meals trade,
gentle trade and prescribed drugs. In flip, 53 Uzbek corporations are
working in Azerbaijan, with the participation of which quite a few
tasks are being carried out.
Uzbekistan additionally has not stayed apart from the reconstruction
works in Karabakh, liberated from Armenian occupation again in 2020.
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, talking at an off-the-cuff
summit of the Turkic Council in March 2021, mentioned that Uzbekistan is
able to take part within the reconstruction works within the liberated
lands, primarily, within the restoration of historic monuments, mosques,
cultural and academic amenities. The nation is at the moment
engaged within the development of a brand-new 960-seat faculty within the
Fuzuli district, which is anticipated to be commissioned this
yr.
The cooperation between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan inside the the
Organization of Turkic States is price consideration. The summit of the
group held in Samarkand on November 11, 2022, with the
participation of President Ilham Aliyev turned the place to begin
for a brand new stage of interplay between the international locations of the Turkic
world. This is, mainly, a transition from cooperation to
integration.
The far-sighted coverage of President Ilham Aliyev turned the
decisive issue which led to the institution of the group,
and this construction is now thought of as one of the crucial efficient
platforms permitting to unravel duties that are important for its member
international locations.
Similar priorities present a stable basis for constructing
long-term sustainable cooperation in strategic instructions. In this
regard, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, which play an vital main
position of their areas – Central Asia and the South Caucasus, can
and may turn out to be the locomotives of interregional cooperation. In
this context, President Ilham Aliyev’s efforts to ascertain
long-term peace, safety and stability within the area are of most
significance. The restoration works launched by Azerbaijan within the
liberated lands, together with with the participation of the Uzbek
aspect, will result in opening up new transportation hyperlinks, turning the
area into a spot of mutually helpful cooperation and creating
new prospects for strengthening interregional ties.