Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 17 March 2023, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov held a meeting with Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation, Co-Chairman of the Board of the Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The parties discussed the expansion of Uzbekistan-Russian cultural and humanitarian cooperation as an important component of dynamically developing relations between the two nations.