As Saida Mirziyoyeva noted, during a conversation with journalists, Marco Rubio stressed that for many centuries Samarkand has been an important center of international trade relations.
"Today, new opportunities are opening up on this earth for cooperation between Uzbekistan and the United States," Saida Mirziyoyeva wrote on her Telegram channel.
According to her, the fact that the first visit of the US Secretary of State to Uzbekistan is taking place in Samarkand has a special symbolic significance.
