Qatari-Uzbek Parliamentary Friendship Group chairman highlights booming bilateral ties

Shura Council Member and Chairman of Qatari-Uzbek Parliamentary Friendship Group, Eng. Ahmed bin Hitmi al-Hitmi hailed relations between Qatar and Uzbekistan as deep, solid and booming amid the two countries’ keenness to enhance and develop them.Speaking to Qatar News Agency (QNA), coinciding with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani’s visit to Uzbekistan, on the first leg of a Central Asia tour, he hailed the steady growth of the Qatar-Uzbekistan relations in various fields, particularly the bilateral parliamentary relations across a series of mutual visits and bilateral meetings, which laid solid foundations for bilateral co-operation and co-ordination of positions on issues of common interest.The two sides have held parliamentary meetings in recent years, including a meeting between HE the Shura Council Speaker Hassan bin Abdulla al-Ghanem and Chairperson of the Uzbekistan Senate Tanzila Narbaeva, on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which was held in Doha in March.Al-Hitmi said the meeting discussed the bilateral parliamentary co-operation, and ways to enhance and develop them, with both sides having stressed the need to co-ordinate positions and viewpoints in international parliamentary forums to serve issues of common concern.He also pointed to meetings that brought together Shura Council members and ministers and officials from Uzbekistan that discussed ways to bolster parliamentary relations and issues of interest to both sides. Al-Hitmi affirmed that the Qatari-Uzbek Parliamentary Friendship Group contributes to boosting the bonds of bilateral parliamentary relations and opens up horizons to further consolidation.