Uzbekistan received a declaration on military cooperation with Russia

Russian and Uzbek Presidents Vladimir Putin and Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a declaration on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on 15 September.  Its text is published on the Kremlin’s website.

According to the document, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan will continue to develop cooperation in the military and military-technical spheres on the basis of existing agreements, as well as to improve the relevant treaty and legal basis.

“Partnership between the interested agencies in the sphere of mutual cooperation on security issues, military and military-technical cooperation, as well as between the security councils of the two countries, the defense, law enforcement agencies and special services, within the framework of international and regional anti-terrorist organizations, with a view to countering, inter alia, the recruitment and mobilization of foreign terrorist fighters and the dissemination and propagation of terrorist and extremist ideas, legalization of the proceeds of crime, the financing of terrorism, illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors, will deepen mutual cooperation against the provision of weapons to terrorist organizations, other illegal financial transactions, other types of transnational organized crime, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," was said in the declaration. 

Moscow and Tashkent once again reaffirmed their commitment to effectively addressing the problem of world drug trafficking on the basis of the international conventions on combating drugs and will continue to combat the legalization of drugs through the relevant bodies.

It was also stated that the countries are ready to develop bilateral cooperation to ensure biosafety.