The upgrade closes a 15-year arc: the strategic partnership dated to 2011, and Sunday's declaration in Tashkent moves it to comprehensive.
The numbers under the signatures are small and moving.
The 10 documents run from a memorandum on economic and financial dialogue to one on geology and mineral resources, with higher education, environment, tourism, archives, Ayurveda and a Samarkand-Gujarat region pairing filling out the list.
The numbers under the signatures are small and moving. Trade passed $1 billion in 2025 for the first time; the declared target is $5 billion by 2030; joint ventures have grown 7-fold in recent years; 14 direct flights a week connect the two countries.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev decorated his guest with the Oliy Darajali Dustlik order, the state's highest award for a foreign citizen, and said the relationship would keep developing dynamically through shared effort. Modi flew on to Bishkek the same day.
The geology memorandum is the one to file. It lands in a season when the region's mineral paperwork moves faster than its mines, and when Tashkent and Astana are building a joint rare-earths track.