Uzbekistan: normalisation of relations with neighbours

On 24 December 2016, the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev visited Uzbekistan. During the visit it was announced that the negotiations regarding the delimitation and demarcation of borders and cross-border cooperation in the Fergana Valley, which had already started at a lower level, would be accelerated.

Three days later, the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Rustam Azimov signed a range of agreements during his visit to Tajikistan, including one restoring direct air links between the two countries, which had been suspended since 1992.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Uzbekistan: Reform or Repeat? http://www.europeansources.info/record/uzbekistan-reform-or-repeat/

ESO: Background information: Central Asian transitions: a health check http://www.europeansources.info/record/central-asian-transitions-a-health-check/

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