On Monday 17 July, Uzbekistan's foreign minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, called for his country's partnership agreement and cooperation with the EU to be updated. The agreement dates back to 1996.
"It is crucial to have a new agreement that is more extensive, not only because the world has changed [since 1996] but also because we must know what direction we are going in and what our relationship should be like in the future", he said at a press conference after the 13th EU-Uzbekistan...