Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has completed a working visit to Kazakhstan, where he participated in the Aqaba Process summit. He was seen off at Astana airport by Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
Mirziyoyev arrived the day before at the invitation of Tokayev and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
The summit in Astana discussed how to prevent the use of artificial intelligence for terrorist and extremist purposes. The meeting was also attended by the presidents of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Emomali Rahmon and Serdar Berdimuhamedov, as well as representatives of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
«The theme of the session — security in the field of artificial intelligence — sounds extremely relevant today,» Tokayev said during talks with Abdullah II on the eve of the summit.
Earlier, Kursiv reported that Kazakhstan and Jordan jointly organized the first Aqaba Process meeting in Central Asia. Abdullah II launched this initiative in 2015 so that countries could coordinate the fight against terrorism and extremism. They take joint measures against terrorism and violent extremism.