The key facts

  • The meeting between Saida Mirziyoyeva and Emmanuel Macron took place in Paris on 11 November
  • Defense, security, cyber technologies, AI, economic and humanitarian projects were discussed
  • The day before, Mirziyoyeva took part in the Paris Peace Forum and spoke about plans to submit the Samarkand Declaration on children's well-being for consideration by the UN General Assembly

Meeting in Paris

On 11 November in Paris, the head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Saida Mirziyoyeva, met with French President Emmanuel Macron. She announced this on her social media page. Mirziyoyeva conveyed to Macron sincere greetings from the head of state, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Topics of the talks

According to Mirziyoyeva, the sides exchanged views on the development of strategic partnership between the two countries across a wide range of areas: from defense, security, cyber technologies and artificial intelligence to major economic and humanitarian projects. No signed documents or specific agreements resulting from the meeting were reported.

Context of the visit

The visit is connected with the Paris Peace Forum, which has been held at the initiative of the French President since 2018 and in which Mirziyoyeva took part the day before the meeting. At the forum, she called for helping protect schools and hospitals in armed conflict zones and for ensuring that attacks on them do not go unpunished, and also said that Uzbekistan plans to submit for consideration by the UN General Assembly a resolution on children's well-being — the Samarkand Declaration. The previous meeting between Mirziyoyeva and Macron took place at the end of June this year.