We meet with Shavkat Mirziyoyev several times a year and discuss all pressing issues in the field of economic and political cooperation".

On 15 April 2019, the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Mirziyoyev opened the Year of Kazakhstan in Uzbekistan during the former's visit to Tashkent.

[7] Tokayev noted that "We are connected by a single language, religion, common history and one destiny.

In 2001, after mutual agreements, the border line in only three disputed areas (Bagys, Arnasai and Nsan) remained undrawn.

The Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan barrier spans the Saryagash and Maktaaral administrative districts of southern Kazakhstan, and consists of a 2,5m-high barbed wire fence that includes searchlights.