Szijjarto: Hungary, Uzbekistan to launch cooperation programmes

Hungary and Uzbekistan will launch large-scale cooperation programmes in the fields of nuclear energy, water management, agriculture and border control, creating opportunities for Hungarian companies in that rapidly developing Central Asian nation, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Tashkent on Wednesday. Uzbekistan has launched ambitious development projects in areas with cutting-edge Hungarian technologies in place, the foreign ministry quoted Szijjarto as saying at a press conference after the seventh session of the two countries' inter-governmental committee for economic cooperation.