Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met on November 15 at the Kuksaroy residence near Tashkent, where the two leaders advanced bilateral cooperation across key industrial sectors. According to lsm.kz, the talks focused on joint initiatives in the oil and gas industry, as well as mining and metallurgy.
Among the signed documents was a decision by the Higher Interstate Council to establish a bilateral working group on geology and the extraction of rare and rare earth metals. The presidents also endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Construction and Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Mining and Geology to expand collaboration in the sector.
The countries additionally approved a framework agreement to launch joint projects in the oil and gas chemical industry. One of the major initiatives under consideration is a partnership between KazMunayGas and Uzbekneftegaz to build a new linear alkylbenzene production complex in Uzbekistan’s Kashkadarya region, with a planned output capacity of up to 50,000 tonnes per year. A final investment decision will be made after completion of the project design phase.
