Archive · 30 Aug 2026
Modi and Mirziyoyev Advance India-Uzbekistan Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
India and Uzbekistan want to work more closely together.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent.
They discussed business, defence, energy, education and technology.
They agreed to create a council led by their foreign ministers to guide cooperation.
They will also give a higher-level role to an existing joint commission.
Business leaders from both countries are expected to meet at a future summit.
India and Uzbekistan are working toward a long-term uranium supply arrangement and three sister-city or sister-state partnerships.
Modi thanked Uzbekistan for a welcome that made him feel as if Gujarat had come to Tashkent.
He also praised Uzbekistan’s support for yoga and its plans to develop New Tashkent.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held delegation-level talks with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Kuksaroy Presidential Palace in Tashkent.
The leaders reviewed cooperation in trade, investment, defence, digital connectivity, energy, education and people-to-people ties.
India and Uzbekistan will create a foreign-minister-level Coordination Council and upgrade their Joint Commission to the ministerial level.
The countries plan to hold a business summit, establish a long-term uranium-supply arrangement and create three sister-city or sister-state partnerships.
Modi praised Uzbekistan’s welcome, yoga initiatives and development plans, including New Tashkent, while highlighting India’s experience with GIFT City.
- Who
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, along with senior officials from both countries.
- What
- They held talks on strengthening bilateral relations and announced new coordination, business, energy and local-partnership initiatives.
- When
- Sunday; the meeting took place as Uzbekistan prepared to mark its 35th Independence Day and as the countries marked 15 years of strategic partnership.
- Where
- The Kuksaroy Presidential Palace in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Why
- To expand cooperation and establish a roadmap toward a comprehensive strategic partnership.
- Meeting location
- Kuksaroy Presidential Palace, Tashkent
- Main participants
- Narendra Modi and Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Cooperation areas
- Trade, investment, defence, digital connectivity, energy, education and people-to-people ties
- New coordination mechanism
- A Coordination Council at the foreign-minister level
- Joint Commission
- To be upgraded from the secretary level to the ministerial level
- Business initiative
- A joint summit for business leaders from India and Uzbekistan
- Energy initiative
- A long-term arrangement for uranium supplies
- Local partnerships
- Three sister-city and sister-state arrangements
