US President Donald Trump invited the leaders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Kasym-Jomart Tokayev and Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the G20 summit, which will be held in the US city of Miami in 2026. About this he wrote in his social network Truth Social.
he said that during telephone conversations together Tokayev and Mirziyoyev “discussed the importance of establishing peace in ongoing conflicts, as well as expanding trade and co-operation between the countries.”
Tokayev’s administration added that the phone conversation with Trump was “lengthy.”
Tokayev, in particular, reiterated the mood for the implementation of agreements concluded during his visit to Washington in November and the Central Asia-US summit and “stressed the complexity of resolving the Ukrainian conflict, where the territorial issue has a dominant place and requires compromises from both sides, taking into account the real situation ‘on the field’.”
The Uzbek president’s website said that Mirziyoyev and Trump reviewed the process of implementing the agreements reached at the highest level and the prospects for developing Uzbek-American relations of strategic partnership.
A US-Uzbek business and investment council has been set up to promote existing projects and develop new ones, work continues on establishing a joint investment fund, and delegations from three regions of Uzbekistan have visited the US to establish co-operation with American states.
Mirziyoyev also invited Trump to visit Uzbekistan at a time convenient for the US leader. Trump received a similar invitation from Tokayev, who said the US president’s trip could be a “historic event”. Current US presidents have never visited Central Asia.
Since Trump’s reappearance in office, the United States has set a course to deepen political and economic co-operation with the Central Asian region, which Washington views as a source of critical mineral resources.
America’s interest in the resource-rich countries intensified after China, which has a near-monopoly on the rare earth metals market, imposed restrictions on exports of these elements, which are used to produce high-tech products.