Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan are strengthening economic connections, signing a variety of agreements covering mining, banking and tourism.
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ali Asadov, presided over a signing ceremony on June 16 in Tashkent of a cooperation agreement under which the two countries will jointly develop an Uzbek gold deposit as well as other mineral resources
Ural Yusupov, Uzbekistan’s deputy mining minister, previously indicated that Tashkent was intent on conducting…