Permanent Mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United Nations

Earlier this week the delegation of Singapore led by the Speaker of the parliament Abdullah Tarmugi started its visit to Uzbekistan.

During its stay in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, the delegation members have been to several ministries and agencies, where they have had talks with the Uzbek officials.

On April 6 the Speaker Abdullah Tarmugi led his high-ranking delegation to the national parliament of Uzbekistan to speak to the Speaker Dilorom Tashmuhamedova of Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan – the Lower House of supreme lawmaking institution on the Uzbek soil.

At their talks at the Legislative Chamber offices in downtown Tashkent, the magnificent building erected given combination of both contemporary and national design and architecture, the sides spoke of the bilateral relations, and particularly, in the sphere of lawmaking and exchange of related experience.

They have also spoken about that the arrangements secured between the heads of two states had served as an important legal basis to further extending the interaction.

In January 2007 President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov paid a State visit to Singapore, which has served to take the bilateral relations up to a new level. That visit resulted in signing of a package of bilateral documents meant to extend ties in various areas, including the trade and economic relations, cooperation in cultural and humanitarian sphere, as well as develop tourism.

“We are much pleased of gradual and consistent development of relations between our countries,” Abdullah Tarmugi said in Tashkent. “During this visit we have become convinced of the high efficiency of considerable reforms being undertaken in Uzbekistan to take it up to higher development frontiers.”

Further speaking on the lawmaking practices in the country, the high-level Singaporean lawmaker said: “It is worth noting the opportunities created in Uzbekistan to well engage in making laws. Singapore is keenly interested in further extending the mutually beneficial cooperation in all spheres.”

Also in Tashkent the delegation of Singapore visited the Upper House of national parliament to talk to its Chairman Ilgizar Sabirov. The establishment of bicameral parliament in Uzbekistan has indeed served as a bold move ahead in terms of furthering the processes of building a law-governed state and free society based on the firm foundations of lawmaking practices and introducing the universally recognized norms of parliamentary work.

Yet another venue for talks in Tashkent has become the foreign ministry of Uzbekistan. On April 7 the Speaker Tarmugh-led delegation met with the Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov of Uzbekistan.

Foreign Minister has warmly welcomed the incoming delegation and spoke of priority areas of the Uzbek foreign policy towards Singapore and the Southeast Asian region, as a whole.

“Uzbekistan considers it important to develop both bilateral and multilateral relations with Singapore,” Foreign Minister Norov said. “Taking this opportunity, here in Uzbekistan we thank Singapore for its support extended at various international forums, and particularly, at the United Nations.”

“We are very impressed of seeing the developments in Uzbekistan in terms of its eighteen years of independent development,” Speaker Tarmugi said, “it has been quite an honor for us to receive President Islam Karimov on his State visit to our country in 2007.”

The sides highly assessed the level of interaction and mutual understanding of the need to develop the relations in many areas, including the trade, economic and political spheres, as well as in the fields of cultural and humanitarian cooperation vis-à-vis extending the mutual travels and people-to-people contacts.

As a part of its stay the Singapore delegation traveled to ever-beautiful ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara to eyewitness the combination of antique architecture and modern renovation of the latest time.