This was stated by the First Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Akramjon Nematov, speaking at the first meeting of the Uzbekistan – Kazakhstan Expert Council, which took place on August 2 in Astana.

Comprehensive development of relations with Azerbaijan is one of Uzbekistan’s key foreign policy priorities.

In recent years, Uzbekistan has been pursuing a systematic course toward creating a law-based, secular, democratic, and social State – the New Uzbekistan.