THE ISLAM KARIMOV ACADEMIC AND EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX

Foreign policy. 1999 year


February 12. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met with French businessmen headed by the chairman of the committee for cooperation with Central Asia and the Caucasus Christine Mons.  

April 20. Czech Prime minister Milosh Zeman paid an official visit to Uzbekistan and met with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. The leaders signed a declaration on cooperation and an agreement on passenger and cargo road transport.


April 23-25. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov visited the USA and took part in the Euro-Atlantic partnership council as part of the celebration of 50 years of NATO. He met with business circles and international organizations as well.  

May 4. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received the Japanese minster of foreign affairs Masahiko Koumura.  

June 25. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received the OSCE representative Wilhem Hoink.  

July 1. The agreement on cooperation between Uzbekistan and the EU signed by President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on June 21, 1996 in Florence came into force.  

Junly 19-20. In Tashkent a meeting of deputy foreign ministers of the "6+2" about Afghanistan, sponsored by the UN special envoy Lahdar Brahimi, met. The Tashkent Declaration on principles to regulate the conflict in Afghanistan was signed.  

July 20. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov took part in the "6+2" meeting and met the US deputy Secretary of State Carl Inderfus.  

July 26. A seminar "Theory and practice of international trade" was held at the Center of economic research in Tashkent in cooperation with the WB. Columbia Professor John MacLaden took part.  

August 23-27. In Bukhara the third conference "Modern problems of atomic physics" attracted 190 scientists from 20 countries.  

September 1. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met the Russian defense minister Igor Sergeev.  

October 4-6. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov paid a state visit to South Korea and signed a joint declaration on partnership in the 21st c and an agreement on cooperation in customs and cooperation.  

October 7-8. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov paid an official visit to Ukraine and signed a declaration on strategic cooperation and an agreement on economic cooperation for 1999-2000. Uzbek foreign minister A.Kamilov and his Ukrainian counterpart B.Tarasiuk signed a protocol on ratifying the agreement on avoidance of dual citizenship.  

October 19. The seminar "Economic rehabilitation and the creation of institutions, the rule of law and the role of civilian society" sponsored by the OSCE opened in Tashkent.