India-Uzbekistan Relation: Pact signed on counter-terror cooperation

The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Uzbekistan in 2015 and 2016 and the visit by President of Uzbekistan to India in October 2018 and January 2019 have provided a new impetus to the relationship between the two countries.

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Friday (November 22): India and Uzbekistan have signed a pact for further strengthening of cooperation in the fields of organised crime and counter-terrorism, the Home Ministry has said today.

The agreement was signed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his Uzbekistan counterpart Pulat Bobojonov.

A delegation from Uzbekistan, led by Bobojonov, met Shah on Wednesday and discussed issues of mutual interest including bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation.

The move will further increase cooperation between India and Uzbekistan in diverse fields including counter-terrorism, organized crime and human trafficking, said a statement issued by the ministry.

Issues related to capacity building and training for Uzbek security personnel in Indian institutions, border guarding and disaster management were also discussed in the meeting, the statement said.

Emphasising on the India-Uzbekistan strategic partnership, the ministers welcomed increased cooperation between the two nations in the area of security cooperation, it said.

Both sides said that the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Uzbekistan in 2015 and 2016 and the visit by President of Uzbekistan to India in October 2018 and January 2019 have provided a new impetus to the relationship between the two countries.

Bobojonov is on a bilateral visit to India from November 20-23.

India-Uzbekistan Bilateral Relations:

India-Uzbekistan relations date back to the history. Both of them being on the Silk Road and part of the Persian and Hindu/Buddhist Empires.

Earlier the area was populated and ruled by Hindu and Buddhist Kings going all the way to Mongolia and beyond. However, few hundred years of Islamisation due to Persian rule changed everything.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire which ruled India from 1526–1857, was born in Andijan in present-day Uzbekistan.

Currently, India has an embassy in Tashkent and Uzbekistan has an embassy in New Delhi.

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