The Central Asian country expects to produce 85.3 million tonnes of oil in 2021 instead of 86 million tonnes forecast earlier.

The Central Asian nation’s annual revenue from the sale of copper is currently $2.5 billion.

Both leaders welcomed heightened ties with the EU. Baku said it invited the bloc to help with the post-war reconstruction of Azerbaijani lands looted and systematically destroyed during the Armenian occupation.

Uzbekistan ranked 146 out of 180 countries and territories in the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International.