As reported earlier, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov has arrived in Moscow on 14 April within official visit to the Russian Federation on the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.

Uzbek President said: “It is a great pleasure to say here once again in your presence that we have invited President Putin to make an official visit to Uzbekistan at any convenient moment”.

“We have always considered his visits with great respect and every meeting with him always gives me great pleasure,” the Uzbek President Islam Karimov said.

“I am pleased that we have had this very important and much needed conversation today. I have indeed received serious and substantial answers to our questions. Today, as always, I was most interested to hear the Russian President’s and Russian leadership’s view of the difficult and hard to predict situations in Afghanistan and the neighbouring countries,” Uzbek leader stated.