On March 20, 1992, both countries established diplomatic relations. On May 30, 1992, they signed the Treaty on the Foundations of Inter-State Relations, Friendship and Cooperation. Over 200 treaties and agreements regulating bilateral ties in various spheres were also signed.
Political contacts. Russian Presidents have visited Uzbekistan four times. In October 1998, President Boris Yeltsin paid a state visit to Uzbekistan. President Vladimir Putin paid working visits to Uzbekistan in May 2000, August 2003 and June 2004, respectively.
President Islam Karimov paid three official visits to Russia in March 1994, November 2005 and February 2008, two state visits in May 1998 and May 2001, as well as three working visits in April 2004, June 2005 and May 2006, respectively.
Russian and Uzbek leaders also maintain regular contacts within the format of the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Community. In June 2008, Dmitry Medvedev and Islam Karimov held bilateral talks during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.
Vladimir Putin's August 2003 working visit to Uzbekistan helped expand bilateral relations still further. Both sides focused on more active trade and economic cooperation, noting the need to tap the existing potential in this sphere.
Moscow and Tashkent reached important agreements as a result of Islam Karimov's April 2004 working visit to Russia. In the wake of these agreements, on June 16, 2004, both leaders signed the Strategic Partnership Treaty charting high-priority aspects of military-political, trade and economic and humanitarian cooperation during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tashkent. The treaty has an unlimited duration.
During his November 2005 official visit to Russia, Islam Karimov and his Russian partners discussed efforts to combat international terrorism, other global threats and challenges, as well as the Central Asian situation in the context of the May 2005 clashes in Andizhan. On November 14, 2005, both Presidents signed the fundamental Treaty on Allied Relations Between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Uzbekistan.
On February 5-6, 2008, during Islam Karimov's official visit to Russia, both sides focused on the current state of bilateral partnership and its future, trade and economic cooperation, investment cooperation, primarily in the fuel and energy sphere, engineering and some other sectors. Moscow and Tashkent signed an inter-governmental cooperation agreement in the field of aviation stipulating integration between Russia's United Aircraft-Building Corporation (UABC) and Uzbekistan's Chkalov Aircraft Production Association in Tashkent.