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Nepal, Uzbekistan establish formal diplomatic ties



Nepal, Uzbekistan establish formal diplomatic ties

KATHMANDU, Jan 27: Nepal and the Uzbekistan entered into the formal diplomtic ties on Friday. With this, the number of countries with which Nepal has established diplomatic relations has now reached 158, including all nations from Central Asia.

The Permanent Representatives of Nepal and Uzbekistan to the United Nations, Ambassadors Mr Durga Prasad Bhattarai and Mr Bakhtiyor Ibragimov respectively, signed a Joint Communique to this effect in New York this morning, together with a joint letter informing the United Nations Secretary General about this development.

On the occasion, the two Ambassadors acknowledged that Nepal and Uzbekistan are already working closesly at the United Nations and other multilateral forums, including as fellow members of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries as well as the Non-Aligned Movement. They also shared views on further widening and deepening bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the days ahead.

A double-landlocked country of about 32 million people, Uzbekistan is known for having the world’s fourth largest gold deposits as well as rich oil and gas reserves. It is the largest electricity producer and a major cotton producer in the region. It possesses diverse cultural heritages with cities like Bukhara and Samarkand that flourished from old Silk Road trade. Its capital city is Tashkent.

A former Soviet Republic, Uzbekistan joined the United Nations on 2 March 1992 and is today a secular, unitary constitutional republic.

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