Uzbekistan is interested in increasing the number of flights to regional airports of Belarus

On November 9, Minister of Transport and Communications Alexey Lyakhnovich and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to Belarus Nuriddin Mamajonov held a working meeting. This sb.by reported in the press service of the Ministry of transport and communications.

Alexey Lyakhnovich noted that the cooperation of the two countries in the field of transport is characterized by a high level of mutual understanding in key areas.

- The current volume of permits fully covers the needs of bilateral road transport. At the same time, systematic work is being carried out aimed at long-term liberalization and abolition of quotas in this area. As for air traffic, the carriers of both states perform parity flights between Minsk and Tashkent with a frequency of three times a week, the minister said.

Rail freight is also showing steady growth. Since July this year, the Slavic Caravan project has been successfully implemented, which launched through trains to Uzbekistan.

In turn, Nuriddin Mamajonov stressed the importance of further development of already established transport links:

- We are interested in increasing the number of flights between the countries, in particular, to regional airports in Belarus. We are also open for the exchange of experience between higher and secondary special education institutions. We would like more and more young people from Uzbekistan to study at the Academy of Aviation and the Belarusian State University of Transport.

Following the talks, the participants expressed mutual readiness for the effective implementation of the planned plans to strengthen bilateral economic ties. Belarus and Uzbekistan discussed topical issues of interaction in the social and labor sphere