"Round table" with the participation of deputies of the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan to discuss the Message of the President of Kazakhstan K.K.Tokayev

On October 11, 2023, a round table was held at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Uzbekistan to discuss the Message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K.Tokayev's "Economic Course of Fair Kazakhstan", in which the President of Kazakhstan set priorities for the Government and the state apparatus and appealed to the Parliament to promote and support at the legislative level the proposed initiatives and tasks aimed at the welfare of the country's population.

The round table was attended by deputies of the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, representatives of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, the Agency for Strategic Reforms of the Republic of Uzbekistan, expert organizations and journalists.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan Beibut Atamkulov acquainted the participants with the fundamental points and theses of the Message aimed at solving specific modernization tasks in various sectors, such as industry, agriculture, tourism, energy, water security, logistics and transit potential development.

The discussion of this important document aroused genuine interest among those present, and also, given the similarity of economic reforms carried out in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, served as a discussion platform for exchanging views on issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of energy, transport and logistics communications and water use.

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Relations of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, Dilorom Fayziyeva, noted that the issues that were indicated in the Message are in tune with the tasks of the current agenda of Uzbekistan.

First Deputy Director General of the Agency for Strategic Reforms Abdulla Abdukadyrov expressed the opinion on the need to create a single transport and economic space.

Deputies of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Elena Kompolshchik, Zulaykho Akramova, representative of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies Bekzhan Sadykov, journalists Anastasia Novikova and Maksad Dzhangirov also actively participated in the discussion.

In general, the initiatives and ideas proposed by the participants of the round table demonstrated full mutual understanding and a desire to deepen further bilateral cooperation.