Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan develop joint tourist program

AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are expanding cooperation. The tourist program will be adopted this time to ease border crossing for tourists, Khabar TV channel reported. The countries plan to revise border crossing rules. A special visa program will be developed to ease travel between two countries.
"We have reached agreement now that convenient conditions will be created on the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to simplify border crossing procedures. A big was carried out on the part of Uzbekistan. The Kazakh side is now repairing Jibek Joly border crossing point. I think we should continue this work on other posts so that tourist buses could cross borders for a short period of time," the TV channel cited Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Aziz Abdukhakimov as saying.
The countries also consider launching new transport corridors, construction of a new railway to link Turkestan and Tashkent.