Receiving credentials, the Uzbek President Islam Karimov cordially greeted the chiefs of diplomatic missions, congratulated every one of them with the start of honorable and yet responsibility-intensive undertakings in Uzbekistan and wished success in their posts.

Chinese Ambassador Jiang Xiao underscored China’s interest in intensifying its interaction with Uzbekistan in the longer run. He pointed to his willingness, while on the current diplomatic mission, to make a meaningful input into materializing that goal, UzA reported.

Uzbekistan considers China a reliable, time-tested partner whose dynamic and sustainable development has generated high respect and acknowledgement. The People’s Republic is one of Uzbekistan’s principal trade partners. The volume of bilateral turnover has grown nearly fourfold in the last five years to reach practically 2.1 billion US dollars in 2010.

US Ambassador George Krol referred to enhancement of mutually advantageous relations as the foremost objective of his diplomatic mission in Uzbekistan.

Ambassador of Vietnam Le Mang Luan confirmed his willingness to make the best of his efforts to promote and consolidate Vietnamese-Uzbek relations of friendship and shared gain.

Kyrgyz Ambassador Anvarbek Mokeev has assured of his enthusiasm to cash in his knowledge and experience as a history scholar and diplomat to further multi-dimensional Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations built on longer-term interests of the two countries and the ages-old wisdom of the two peoples.