Archive · 31 Aug 2026
India and Uzbekistan Elevate Ties, Target $5 Billion Trade
India and Uzbekistan decided to make their partnership much stronger.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent on Sunday, August 30.
They upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
They agreed to create a long-term arrangement for Uzbekistan to supply uranium to India for peaceful, civilian nuclear energy.
The reports did not provide detailed terms of the uranium arrangement.
The countries want yearly trade to grow from more than $1 billion to $5 billion by 2030.
They also plan to work together on defence, farming, medicine, technology, energy, space and education.
A council of foreign ministers will help guide their cooperation.
Uzbekistan also gave Modi its Order of the Highest Friendship.
India and Uzbekistan upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during talks in Tashkent.
The countries agreed to establish a long-term framework for uranium supplies from Uzbekistan to India for civil nuclear energy.
They set a goal of increasing annual bilateral trade from more than $1 billion to $5 billion by 2030.
Cooperation will expand across defence, critical minerals, mining, energy, technology, agriculture, healthcare, education and tourism.
The leaders created a foreign-minister-level Coordination Council and upgraded their joint commission to the ministerial level.
- Who
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
- What
- They elevated bilateral ties, agreed on a long-term uranium-supply framework and set a $5 billion annual trade target for 2030.
- When
- Sunday, August 30, during Modi’s two-day visit to Uzbekistan.
- Where
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan, including talks at the Kuksaroy Presidential Palace.
- Why
- To deepen cooperation in trade, investment, defence, security, energy, technology and other strategic sectors.
- New partnership status
- Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
- Trade target
- $5 billion in annual bilateral trade by 2030
- Current trade
- More than $1 billion annually
- Uranium cooperation
- A long-term supply framework or arrangement involving uranium from Uzbekistan to India for civil nuclear energy; detailed terms were not reported.
- Coordination mechanism
- A Foreign Ministers-led Coordination Council will guide bilateral cooperation.
- Joint commission
- The existing commission will be upgraded from secretary level to ministerial level.
- Agreements
- Several agreements and memoranda were exchanged; one report said 11 agreements were signed.
- Uzbek honour
- Mirziyoyev conferred Uzbekistan’s Oliy Darajali Do’stlik, or Order of the Highest Friendship, on Modi.
Sources
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