“We are glad to welcome Carlos Chan and his team to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. We express our gratitude to our friends from the Philippines for everything they do to strengthen ties between our two countries. We also discussed many promising areas of cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Philippines,” the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan wrote on his Telegram channel. 

It should be recalled that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov in 2017-2021 worked as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to the People’s Republic of China and at the same time in Mongolia and the Philippines with residence in Beijing.