TERMEZ, March 30. /TASS/. The Eurasian security architecture should be based on key regional blocs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said at a Russia-Uzbekistan conference organized by the Valdai Discussion Club and the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the Uzbek president.
"We consider especially promising the idea of creating a security architecture in Eurasia based on key Eurasian associations as a broad, open system not aimed against anyone, and as a framework of equal and indivisible security, within which all states would be confident in their security and would not seek to ensure it at the expense of others," he said at the opening of the conference titled "Russia - Uzbekistan: Strategic Partnership in Eurasia".
Galuzin noted that it is within this logic that the Greater Eurasian Partnership initiative, proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was developed. "This concept is today a flagship of Russia’s foreign policy and aligns with the Uzbekistan 2030 strategy," he noted.
According to the deputy foreign minister, Uzbekistan’s strategy envisions merging the economic potential of countries and interstate formats into a "single integration contour through enhancing transport connectivity, linking production and supply chains, financial mechanisms, and removing trade obstacles".
