AKIPRESS.COM - Ubekistan sent more than 185 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan through the border checkpoint in Surkhandarya region. It was delivered to Hairatan in the north of Balkh province, UzA reported.

The humanitarian aid includes 48 tons of flour and wheat, 15.7 tons of vegetable oil, more than 10,000 pieces of canned meat, 22 tons of pasta, 24 tons of sugar, 100 thousand packages of instant food.

Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev, First Deputy Head of Surkhandarya region Anvar Oripov, Minister of Economy of Afghanistan Deen Mohammad Hanif and other officials took part in the ceremony of transferring humanitarian aid, which took place on the territory of the Astras company in Hairatan.

Talks were held on the development of mutual trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation between the regions.