Lee meets Uzbek Senate chairwoman, urges parliamentary support for implementing summit agreements

[Financial News] President Lee Jae-myung met with Uzbek Senate Chairwoman Tanzila Narbaeva at the Blue House on the 9th and called for Uzbekistan’s parliament to provide legislative support for implementing agreements reached at the two countries’ summit.
According to a written briefing by Blue House spokesperson Kim Seong-wan, President Lee said the countries’ special strategic partnership had deepened further following two exchanges between their leaders last year, the first Korea-Central Asia Summit and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s state visit to Korea last September. Chairwoman Narbaeva is Uzbekistan’s first woman to head its Senate and also chairs the Korea-Uzbekistan Committee for Monitoring Practical Cooperation.
At their bilateral meeting last September, the leaders agreed to expand cooperation on critical mineral supply chains, transport and logistics connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges. Lee called for efforts at the parliamentary level to ensure these agreements lead to concrete results and bring tangible benefits to the people of both countries.
Chairwoman Narbaeva conveyed President Mirziyoyev’s regards and thanked the Korean government and National Assembly for their hospitality. She also said the president’s state visit to Korea had helped take bilateral cooperation to a new level, and responded that she would play an active role in developing relations through cooperation between the two countries’ parliaments.
With 2027 marking the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the 90th anniversary of ethnic Koreans settling in Central Asia, President Lee proposed commemorating their shared historical and cultural heritage and expanding people-to-people exchanges, including through the construction of a history museum for ethnic Koreans. Chairwoman Narbaeva agreed, saying she would also actively support, at the parliamentary level, projects that strengthen ties between the peoples of the two countries.
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