Russian First Vice-Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov praises the results of his meeting with the president and prime minister of Uzbekistan, Itar-Tass reported.

The Russian top official described his "talks with the prime minister and president of Uzbekistan as positive".

"From 1998 I visit Uzbekistan practically every year. I know rather well specific relationship in defence and security. Now we’re mostly talking about trade and economic cooperation," he told journalists on Wednesday.

The first vice-prime minister also praised a package of Russian-Uzbek documents on migration that "regulates all mechanism of migration and introduces a full, normal and civilised system, protects the interests of labour migrants in Russia and Uzbekistan, and allows both sides to effectively fight illegal migration and other bouquet of crime". Ivanov recalled that Uzbekistan is one of the CIS countries with which Russia signed such documents.

An agreement has been reached to cooperate in the financial and banking sectors, including interaction in attracting additional investments in Uzbekistan, he said. "We consider Uzbekistan’s market positive and stable."

"By December (on the results of the intergovernmental commission) we’ll sign agreements on space, including on Maidanak (joint use of the Maidanak observatory). Respective instructions have been given," Ivanov said.

In his view, Moscow and Tashkent "should not be formalists and wait for the commission’s session in order to sign documents.""If the documents are ready, we should not wait for the next meeting. We may sign them just today," the Russian top official said.

"In general I’m very satisfied with this. I hope that there will be less declarativity in Russian-Uzbek relations and we’ll have more and more concrete projects," he said.