TASHKENT: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan and visiting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a declaration on deepening the strategic alliance and expanding comprehensive cooperation, according to the Uzbek president's press service.

Following their talks on Tuesday, the two sides signed 18 documents on industrial cooperation, international road transport, illegal migration, quarantine and plant protection, military and military-technical cooperation, and military and military-technical collaboration, as per the statement.

The Uzbek president also proposed increasing bilateral trade volume and implementing a number of projects in machine-building, electrical engineering, textile, wine-making, food, construction, oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, agro-industrial, and other industries.

According to media reports, the two countries have agreed to establish a joint investment fund to develop and promote promising cooperation projects in both countries, and to improve efficiency by utilising the transport communications system, which includes the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

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