At the beginning of the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Elyor Ghaniev handed over Dustlik order to Udo Fulker, which was conferred with the presidential decree for his contribution to development of the Uzbek-German trade-economic and investment cooperation.

Udo Fulker, in his turn, asked to deliver his gratitude to the Uzbek President Islam Karimov for award, which he considers as high evaluation for his activity for strengthening mutual beneficial cooperation between Uzbekistan and Germany. He added that he will work with new energy in this direction.

The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the sides exchanged opinion on new and perspective cooperation projects.