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China has signed agreements worth US$15 billion with Uzbekistan in key sectors, including the exploitation of oil and natural gas and uranium fields in the Central Asian state.
AFP that President Xi Jinping was on a four-nation tour of Central Asia. He has already signed major energy deals in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
China also signed an agreement with Uzbekistan to make changes to an Uzbekistan-China gas pipeline. The changes were due to the planned construction of a fourth branch of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline that runs through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, according to news report.
“One of our priorities is to increase the trade turnover between our countries to US$5 billion by 2017,” Xi said.
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