Ansari to undertake four-day visit to Uzbekistan

Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan from May 21 to 24.

He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation.

Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jayanti Natarajan and four Members of Parliament are likely to be part of the delegation.

Vice-President Ansari will depart from Delhi on May 21 and reach Tashkent on the same day.

On Wednesday, he will call on Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov. He will also meet with the Chairman of the Senate and the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament.

The Vice President will also visit the historical cities of Samarkand and Bukhara.

During the last state visit of the President of Uzbekistan to India in 2011, both countries elevated their bilateral relationship to the level of a strategic partnership.

Relations between India and Uzbekistan have traditionally been cordial and significant progress has been registered in all areas of bilateral cooperation, through regular high-level exchanges, cooperation in strategic areas, growing bilateral trade and commercial ties and increased interaction in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and people-to-people relations.