Turkey and Uzbekistan have set sights on increasing their bilateral trade to $5 billion within a year, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Tuesday as he met his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the Central Asian country’s capital Tashkent.
“We have set a year as a target to reach $5 billion,” Erdoğan said.
“I believe that, through the preferential trade agreement we have signed today, we will reach our targets in a shorter time,” he added.
Erdoğan has arrived in the country upon the invitation of Mirziyoyev.
“The relations between Turkey and Uzbekistan, which we have described as a ‘strategic partnership based on brotherhood,’ are developing in an atmosphere of mutual trust in all areas,” Erdoğan also said in an article published in the New Uzbekistan newspaper Tuesday.
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