Senior CPC official meets Uzbek acting FM

TASHKENT, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met Wednesday with Bakhtiyor Saidov, Uzbekistan's acting foreign minister.

Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made a technical stop in Tashkent en route to Europe for a visit and held a brief meeting with Saidov at the airport.

The two sides spoke highly of China-Uzbekistan friendship and discussed future high-level exchanges.

They agreed to follow through on the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, push for more results in all-round mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Uzbekistan as well as in cooperation between China and Central Asia, and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability.