President of Uzbekistan receives Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Mohammed Al-Sabah on June 6 in Oqsaroy residence.

Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah is in Uzbekistan for a two-day official visit. There were a number of Kuwaiti officials who had visited Uzbekistan in the past year. Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Minister of the Amiri Diwan and Dr Maasouma Al-Mubarak, the minister of health, also visited Uzbekistan last year. The embassy of Uzbekistan opened in March 2006.

On the good bilateral relations between Kuwait and Uzbekistan the Kuwait Fund has been involved in developing infrastructure and social projects in Uzbekistan. The Kuwait Fund provided a loan worth more than sixty million USD for three projects; a drinking water project, the electrification of railway roads and equipment for emergency medical centers.

The Kuwait`s government assisted to Uzbekistan in the reconstruction of the Imam Bukhari Complex.

During the meeting at Oqsaroy residence the sides considered the issues on further development of wide spectrum of bilateral relations between Uzbekistan and Kuwait.