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Japarov leaves Yerevan with a roadmap to 2029, a travel agreement and a pension accord

Sadyr Japarov’s official visit to Armenia on 16 and 17 October ended with a joint statement with Nikol Pashinyan and a set of documents exchanged in Yerevan: a cooperation roadmap for 2027 to 2029, an agreement on procedures for citizens’ visits and stays, a memorandum on protecting Lakes Sevan and Issyk-Kul, a sister-city agreement between Yerevan and Bishkek and an agreement on cooperation in pension provision, Armenpress reported on Saturday.

Schematic map of the South Caucasus and Central Asia with Lakes Sevan and Issyk-Kul marked and a dotted line between Yerevan and Bishkek.

Published in full by the prime minister’s office on Saturday evening, the statement carries no sum, no trade figure and no investment pledge, and names the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation of 4 April 2002 as its basis. Its one line on the neighbours sets Kyrgyzstan’s border treaties with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan beside the Washington Joint Declaration of Armenia and Azerbaijan of 8 August 2025 as documents that have contributed to peace and stability in the two regions.

Transport gets a paragraph: the two sides call the Armenian government’s Crossroads of Peace concept and the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, once integrated with other routes, a way to diversify supply chains between the regions. Security councils, defence and law-enforcement bodies and special services are to deepen cooperation bilaterally and in multilateral formats.

Its one line on the neighbours sets Kyrgyzstan’s border treaties with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan beside the Washington Joint Declaration of Armenia and Azerbaijan of 8 August 2025 as documents that have contributed to peace and stability in the two regions.

The documents were exchanged after the leaders’ meeting on Saturday, Armenpress reported at 14:44 Yerevan time. Foreign ministers Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeenbek Kulubaev signed the travel-procedures agreement and the roadmap, the environment ministers signed the Sevan and Issyk-Kul memorandum, the education ministers the agreements on education and science, and Armenia’s justice minister and the Kyrgyz ambassador completed an agreement on personal-data protection that the agency describes as ratified.

Armenia’s ambassador in Bishkek and the chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s Social Fund, Baktiyar Aliev, exchanged an agreement on cooperation in pension provision. Both countries are parties to the Eurasian Economic Union’s pension agreement, in force since 2021, and Armenpress does not say how the bilateral document relates to it.

The intentions list runs from a discussion of TUMO, Aneli and Armath branches in Kyrgyzstan to Days of Culture in 2027 and 2028, the Aitmatov centenary and Khachaturian’s 125th anniversary, dual-degree programmes and digitalised recruitment in the civil service.

Japarov invited Pashinyan to pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan in 2027, and the statement records the invitation as accepted, with the dates to be agreed through diplomatic channels.