Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador Alice Wells will travel with a delegation to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan on February 25-28. U.S. Department of State reports.
In Bishkek, Alice Wells will meet with senior government officials and visit the American University of Central Asia to meet with students and faculty. She will also participate in a joint public event with Kyrgyz Republic Minister of Finance Baktygul Jeenbaeva to mark the successful cooperative efforts by the governments to return $4.6 million of assets stolen by the family of former President Kurmanbek Bakiev to the Kyrgyz people.
The Ambassador will then travel to Tashkent where she will lead the U.S. government interagency delegation to conduct U.S.-Uzbekistan Annual Bilateral Consultations with Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov.
The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary will meet senior Uzbek government officials to discuss U.S.-Uzbek cooperation on global and regional security issues; the peace process in Afghanistan; economic and trade agreements; human rights, including religious freedom; and joint U.S.-Uzbek programs on judicial reform, public education, and women’s rights.
This will be the first Annual Bilateral Consultations conducted following President Mirziyoyev’s historic visit to Washington in May 2018.
