Following talks in Tashkent on 30 January, Uzbek Foreign Ministry officials and an Afghan interim government delegation headed by Planning Minister Hadji Mohammad Muhadeq signed a joint statement on cooperation in unspecified fields, Interfax reported. The two sides also discussed foreign policy, the repair of old and construction of new highways linking the two countries, joint actions to combat drug trafficking, the possibility of Uzbekistan providing energy supplies to Afghanistan, and the training of teachers, agronomists, and irrigation engineers. LF