On January 20, 2006, when stopping over Tashkent on his way back home after concluding a visit to Africa, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing held working talks with Uzbek Foreign Minister Eler Ganiyev.

Both sides made positive comments on the smooth development of bilateral relations and held that the two countries should earnestly implement the Treaty on Friendly Cooperative Partnership between China and Uzbekistan, comprehensively advance friendly exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation, build up mutual political trust, continue to support each other on major issues, actively implement related loan programs offered by China to Uzbekistan, expand achievements of economic, trade and investment cooperation and push for continuous development of bilateral relations.

Both sides exchanged views on the situation of this region, and agreed to keep closer coordination and cooperation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and do a good job in holding the SCO Summit in June. The "three forces" of terrorism, extremism and separatism are common threats faced by both sides and the two countries will strengthen cooperation in combating the "three forces" and safeguard peace and stability of this region.

The two Foreign Ministers also discussed the African and Iraqi issues, as well as the Iranian nuclear issue and the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, indicating that both countries would like to maintain communication and coordination in international affairs and multilateral institutions including the UN.