Turkey and Uzbekistan increased their trade volume by 83% YoY, to $1.3 billion in January-May despite the pandemic conditions, the Turkish vice president Fuat Oktay said on June 28 as he addressed the Uzbekistan-Turkey Business Forum in Tashkent.
The event was organized by Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) as part of the 6th Meeting of Turkey-Uzbekistan Joint Economic Commission.
Speaking at the forum, Oktay said: “Our goal is to maintain this momentum until the end of the year to reach our 2023 target as soon as possible and to go beyond our target of $5-billion trade volume”.
Oktay expressed hope that the meeting, which brought together businessmen from both Turkey and Uzbekistan, would be a turning point in bilateral relations.
“Despite the negative atmosphere the world is going through, the increase in our bilateral trade with Uzbekistan is the clearest indicator that we will exceed our targets and reach new records,” he noted. (Uzreport/Business World Magazine)