The Uzbek president received a formal welcome from his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi at the Sa’dabad Palace in Tehran on Sunday.
The two presidents are going to co-chair a joint meeting of high-ranking delegations, after which a number of cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding will be signed.
Mirziyoyev is the first Uzbek president to visit Iran in more than 20 years.
Raisi traveled to Uzbekistan’s Samarkand in September 2022 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Iran and Uzbekistan signed 17 memoranda of understanding and cooperation documents during that visit.
The agreements entail cooperation in the fields of agriculture, energy, customs affairs, sports, science, technology and innovation, cultural exchanges, health and treatment, international transport through Iran’s Chabahar port, environmental cooperation, industrial development, tourism, and facilitation of visa for the business people.
Raisi had proposed that the level of $500 annual trade exchanges between Tehran and Tashkent could rise by three to four times in the first step.