First India-Iran-Uzbekistan trilateral on Chabahar port to be held on Monday December 13,2020
NEW DELHI- India’s Chabahar project found a convert to its cause of connectivity: Uzbekistan. On Monday, India, Iran and Uzbekistan will hold their first trilateral meeting to boost connectivity to the port. “India welcomes the interest of Uzbekistan to use the Chabahar Port as a transit port,’’ said a press release issued by the ministry of external affairs (MEA). The meeting will be jointly chaired at the deputy minister level in Uzbekistan and Iran and at the secretary level in India. The trilateral was a key takeaway of the first Uzbek-India virtual summit held on Friday.
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New Delhi and Tashkent at a virtual summit also decided to explore connectivity routes via International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) – a 7,200-km multi-mode ship, rail, and road freight route connecting India, Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia – and Chabahar port in Iran, according to a joint statement issued after the summit.