Bakhtiyor Saidov at the C5+1 meeting in Samarkand proposed a strategic partnership on critical minerals
At the meeting of the Central Asian foreign ministers and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Samarkand, Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov stated that the region has grown stronger and more united over the past decade. He proposed making critical minerals one of the key priorities of cooperation — from geological exploration to local industrial clusters. Uzbekistan also assumed co-chairmanship of the C5+1 Secretariat.
Otabek Yusupov