WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will meet in Washington next week, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Tuesday after meeting officials in Uzbekistan.
The visit "should help pave the way for a great meeting between our presidents next week in Washington," Landau wrote in a post on X following meetings in the Central Asian nation.
Representatives for the White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment about the meeting.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said over the weekend he would participate in a U.S.-Central Asia summit in Washington on November 6, according to a post from his office on Telegram.
Trump is touring Asia this week, including a meeting on Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has sought to court Uzbekistan. Such Central Asian nations have traditionally fallen under Russia's sphere of influence.
Last month, Trump said Uzbekistan Airways signed a roughly $8 billion deal with U.S.-based Boeing to buy up to 22 of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Saida Mirziyoyeva, a presidential aide and Mirziyoyev's daughter, on Monday had said she met Landau and U.S. special envoy Sergio Gor, writing on X: "We discussed the dynamic reforms in Uzbekistan, new opportunities for trade and investment, and ways to strengthen cooperation on public security."
"We very much enjoyed our candid and far-ranging discussion. Many opportunities to partner in the future," Landau replied in a separate X post on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Gram Slattery; Additional reporting by Felix Light in Tbilisi; Editing by Doina Chiacu, William Maclean)
