AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov received newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States Pamela Spratlen on 21 January 2015.

The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan said that the U.S. envoy handed over copes of her credentials.

The sides considered current state of relations between Uzbekistan and the U.S. and implementation of agreements, reached within the fifth round of bilateral political consultations, which was held on 1-2 December 2014 in Tashkent.

The officials also discussed perspective directions of developing interaction in political, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other areas. They exchanged opinions on some international and regional issues.

Spratlen replaces George Krol at this post, who was appointed to the post of the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan in May 2014.