Afghanistan-Uzbekistan relations

Under the new agreement, Uzbekistan will supply Afghanistan with 450 megawatts of electricity during the winter as both countries suffer from outages.

In recent days, Tajikistan has been criticized by the U.N. Refugee Agency for deporting Afghan refugees.

Tashkent has sought to serve as a broker between the Taliban and the world to keep Afghanistan on the global agenda.

In recent weeks, both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have signed agreements with Afghanistan on energy supplies in 2022, despite unplanned outages.

Recent reports suggest that 100 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid delivered to a transit hub in Uzbekistan by UNHCR has not been able to cross the border into Afghanistan yet. 

Phone survey work in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in August and September underscores general discomfort with the topic of Afghanistan.

Tashkent has assisted Western countries in evacuating some Afghans, but Uzbekistan can and should do more. 

Both countries have been willing to take some Afghan refugees in, but only temporarily. 

Focusing on trade networks, Afghanistan’s neighbors hope to forge regional stability in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal.

Central Asian countries have begun coordinating their responses to the worsening security situation in Afghanistan. 

As the Taliban capture districts in Afghanistan’s north, Uzbek and Tajik responses to fleeing Afghan forces have varied.