The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Sunday Abdul Ghaffar Bahr, the newly-appointed ambassador of the IEA, has arrived in Uzbekistan to take up the reins of the Tashkent embassy.
According to experts, Bahr will help implement projects recently agreed to between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
The ministry announced Wednesday Bahr’s appointment to the post.
Experts say this appointment is testimony to the new developments in Afghanistan’s diplomacy and the expansion of relations with neighbors, especially Uzbekistan.
They also say that political relations between Kabul and Tashkent are inevitable given the major projects the two countries are working on.
Five commercial and economic contracts worth more than $2 billion were signed in Kabul recently between the two countries.
Last year, Uzbekistan handed over the Afghan embassy in Tashkent to the Islamic Emirate, which has been headed by Mughfurullah Shahab since then.