Wednesday December 6, 2017
Kabul (BNA) President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani participated in wreath-laying ceremony at Uzbekistan Independence Minaret yesterday.
At the ceremony, the country’s President was escorted by Uzbek Prime Minister Abdullah Aripov, foreign minister Abdul Aziz Kamilov and governor of Tashkent Rahmonbeck Usmanov. While receiving the special guard of honor, President Ghani laid wreath at Independence and Humanitarian Minaret of Uzbekistan. Afterwards, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his accompanying delegation, accompanied by Uzbek special envoy for Afghanistan, Prime Minister and foreign affairs minister of Uzbekistan and governor of Tashkent, paid a visit to Khazrati Imam Architectural Complex which contains the Great Mosque as well as the place where a historical manuscript of the Holy Quran is preserved. The manuscript was written on deer skin during the term of Hazrat Uthman (R.A). The country’s President thanked relevant officials for offering historic information regarding the complex and wrote a memorial note in the historic book of the complex.
