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Representatives of the foreign ministries of Uzbekistan and Japan analyzed the current state and promising directions for the further development of bilateral relations in political, trade, economic, cultural, and humanitarian and other fields, in the course of the next round of political consultations in Tokyo on September 26, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

A special attention was paid to the implementation of agreements reached during the official visit of Uzbek President Islam Karimov to Japan in February 2011.

During the visit of the Uzbek President, the sides signed a joint Uzbek-Japanese statement on friendship, strategic partnership and cooperation, memorandum between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries on economic cooperation for implementation of projects of "Official development assistance" program and other documents.

The parties stated that to date, a solid legal basis was created in Uzbek-Japanese relations, considerable experience of mutually beneficial exchanges in all areas of cooperation has been accumulated, as well as between state and public institutions, business communities, representatives of civil society.

As of 2012, the trade turnover between the two countries increased by 1.3 times, that is up to $214.7 million.