President Yoon Suk-yeol and First Lady Kim Keon-hee, having completed their state visit to Kazakhstan, are boarding Air Force One at Astana Airport in Kazakhstan on the 13th (local time), heading to their next state visit destination, Uzbekistan, while greeting. [Photo by Yonhap News]
President Yoon Suk-yeol, who is on a tour of three Central Asian countries, departed for Uzbekistan, the final country on his itinerary, on the 13th (local time).
According to the Blue House, President Yoon concluded his state visit to Kazakhstan that day and flew from Astana Airport in Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan on Air Force One, the presidential aircraft.
After arriving in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, President Yoon is scheduled to pay tribute at the Independence Monument as his first engagement.
Later that evening, he will preside over a dinner meeting with the Korean diaspora and encourage the Uzbek-Korean community.
Uzbekistan is the only country in Central Asia that has established a "Special Strategic Partnership" with South Korea. Trade between the two countries reached a record high of $2.46 billion last year.
In a written interview with Uzbekistan's state news agency "Dunyo," President Yoon said, "Amid the global complex crisis, this is an opportunity to further diversify and deepen economic cooperation between our two countries," adding, "We will strengthen research and development (R&D) cooperation and human exchanges in advanced scientific technologies such as information and communication technology (ICT), artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors."
President Yoon will carry out his Uzbekistan schedule over two nights and three days starting from this day and is expected to return to Korea on the 16th.
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