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The first meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of “India – Central Asia” Dialogue with participation of Afghanistan took place in Samarkand on January 12-13, 2019, reports the press service of Uzbek government.

The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov and the External Affairs Minister of the Republic of India Sushma Swaraj.
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of “India – Central Asia” Dialogue welcomed the participation of a representative Afghan delegation at their first meeting and emphasized their commitment to promoting the economic reconstruction of Afghanistan through implementation of joint infrastructure, transit-transport, energy and other projects that contribute to the country’s integration into the system of regional and world economic relations.
At the plenary session, heads of foreign affairs agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Beibut Atamkulov, the Kyrgyz Republic – Chingiz Aidarbekov, the Republic of Tajikistan – Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmenistan – Rashid Meredov discussed a wide range of issues aimed at expanding friendly and mutually beneficial relations between India and the Central Asian countries in two and multilateral formats.
The readiness to cooperate in preparation for the Eighth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VIII), scheduled for the second half of 2019 in Tashkent city, was confirmed.In addition, heads of foreign affairs agencies accepted the invitation of the Minister Sushma Swaraj to hold the next ministerial meeting in 2020 in India.