Kabul, June 21 (TIWN) Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban-led Afghan government, met Abdulaziz Kamilov, Uzbekistan national security council advisor and special representative of the President for foreign policy, an official statement said on Monday.

The meeting held on Sunday "focused on bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, Afghanistan's ties with the international community, the early launch of major economic projects, and cooperation between the two countries", Xinhua news agency quoted the statement saying.  The statement quoted Kamilov as saying that the Taliban-led caretaker government's rule in Afghanistan opened a new chapter in relations between the two neighbouring countries.