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Diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Uzbekistan were established on 25 August 1992.
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Diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Uzbekistan were established on 25 August 1992.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Tashkent was opened in 1993 while the Uzbek Embassy was opened in Kyiv in 1995.
Since the establishment of relations between the two countries, 8 top-level visits have been made:
| Guest | Host | Place of visit | Date of visit |
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 President Leonid Kuchma |  President Islam Karimov | Tashkent | June 1995 |
| President Leonid Kuchma | President Islam Karimov | Tashkent | October 2000 [1] |
| President Leonid Kuchma | President Islam Karimov | Tashkent | December 2002 |
| President Leonid Kuchma | President Islam Karimov | Tashkent | April 2003 |
| President Islam Karimov | President Leonid Kuchma | Kyiv | August 1992 |
| President Islam Karimov | President Leonid Kuchma | Kyiv | November 1994 |
| President Islam Karimov | President Leonid Kuchma | Kyiv | February 1998 |
| President Islam Karimov | President Leonid Kuchma | Kyiv | October 1999 |
Uzbekistan supplies Ukraine with cotton fiber, textiles, petroleum products, and non-ferrous metals. There are currently 48 enterprises operating in Uzbekistan and 34 Uzbek companies in Ukraine. In 2018, Uzbekistan became the largest import country for Ukrainian sugar, which accounted for 60% of all Ukrainian sugar exports. In early October of that year, deliveries became complicated due to an investigation by the Verkhovna Rada into a supposed unfair advantage being given to Uzbek carmakers by providing them with various forms of support. The Oliy Majlis retaliated by imposing sanctions and import bans on Ukrainian sugar and pharmaceuticals. [2] The crisis ended in December when the Joint Ukrainian-Uzbek Commission convened to discuss cooperating on economic issues in the interests of both countries. [3]
The first version of the monument to Taras Shevchenko monument was installed in Tashkent on 21 November 1920. [4] In October 2000, during the official state visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Uzbekistan, he and the President Islam Karimov laid a memorial stone at the site of the installation of the future monument to Shevchenko. [5] Two years later, on 20 December 2002, Kuchma unveiled the monument to Shevchenko made by sculptor Leonid Ryabtsev. [6] [7] It was announced in 2016 that there was plans to open an Alisher Navoi Monument in Kyiv. [8]
There are currently 86,000 Ukrainians or people of Ukrainian descent living in Uzbekistan. They mostly live in large urban cities such as Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Fergana as well as speak the Uzbek language or the Surzhyk sociolect. Crimean Tatar is also widely spoken by this community. Most belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
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