The first Uzbekistan-Belarus Provinces Forum will open today in Minsk, BelTA said. The program of the forum includes three thematic sections: industrial cooperation, the agro-industrial complex, cooperation in the humanitarian, IT and science. The main theme of the plenary session on July 30 will be the cooperation between the ptrovinces as a key factor in the development of bilateral ties. It is expected that about 15 inter-province cooperation deal, as well as trade contracts will be signed at the forum sites.
Guests and participants of the forum will be able to familiarize themselves with the exhibition of Uzbek goods. In addition, a monument to the Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi will be inaugurated in Minsk on the days of the forum.
Representatives of the provinces, ministries and departments, parliamentarians, businesses of the two countries are expected to attend the event. The Uzbekistan delegation will be headed by the first deputy chairman of the Senate Sodiq Safoev, with the mayors of Andijan, Bukhara, Djizak, Namangan, Samarkand, Khorezm, Fergana and Tashkent provinces to be represented.
The forum is timed to the official visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Belarus.
