TASHKENT. Aug 17 (Interfax) - Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and his Tajik counterpart Sirodzhiddin Aslov signed an intergovernmental agreement on mutual grants of land for the construction of diplomatic missions in Tashkent on Friday.
The leaders of the two countries were present.
The ministers also signed a protocol on exchanging the instruments of ratification of an agreement on individual segments of the Uzbek-Tajik border and a protocol on the introduction of additions to an agreement on border-crossing points.
Almost 99% of the Uzbek-Tajik border has been delimited. It is over 1,330 kilometers long. Around 20% of the Tajik-Uzbek border remained undelimited after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Disagreements, including incidents on the border, regularly occurred between the countries for almost 25 years.
A total of 27 documents were signed following high-level talks in Tashkent on Friday. Among them are agreements on cooperation in the fields of industry, standardization and certification, science, education, geology, agriculture, and culture. Agreements on cooperation in trade and the economy, science and technology, and cultural and humanitarian affairs were signed by representatives of the regions of Surkhondaryo and Khatlon and of Samarkand and Sughd.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is paying a two-day state visit to Uzbekistan at Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's invitation.