{"id":17190,"date":"2026-08-20T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=17190"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:56:16","slug":"ministr-investitsij-promyshlennosti-i-torgovli-provyol-vstrechu-s-chrezvychajnym-i-polnomochnym-poslom-azerbajdzhanskoj-respubliki-v-uzbekistane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/ministr-investitsij-promyshlennosti-i-torgovli-provyol-vstrechu-s-chrezvychajnym-i-polnomochnym-poslom-azerbajdzhanskoj-respubliki-v-uzbekistane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>On 19 August, Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Laziz Kudratov held a meeting with Rashad Mammadov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan, the press service of the MIIT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/MIIT_Uz\/19463\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17191\" src=\"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2026-08-19_18-58-14-254x169.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The parties reviewed the dynamics of bilateral trade and investment cooperation. In 2025, bilateral trade reached USD 307.3 million (+14.6%), while in January\u2013June 2026 it amounted to USD 170.3 million (+30.8%).<\/p>\n<p>Particular attention was paid to the preparation of bilateral documents aimed at further expanding trade and investment cooperation, including a Roadmap for the implementation of the agreements reached and a Programme to increase bilateral trade to USD 1 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The parties also discussed organizational matters related to the 4th Uzbekistan\u2013Azerbaijan Interregional Forum, which will take place in Tashkent on 22 August and serve as a platform for expanding direct contacts between the regions and businesses of the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, further steps were identified to increase bilateral trade, advance investment projects and strengthen interregional ties.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 August, Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Laziz Kudratov held a meeting with Rashad Mammadov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17193,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions\/17193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}