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On August 12–13, 2025, a meeting of experts from the Social Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Off-Budget Pension Fund under the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan was held in Tashkent. The parties agreed to mutually recognize pension experience, which will be taken into account when calculating payments regardless of the pensioner's country of residence and where they worked prior to retirement. Draft documents were signed at a meeting of representatives of the relevant agencies of the two countries in Tashkent, Fergana.ru reports, citing the press service of the Social Fund of Kyrgyzstan.
It is noted that employees of the Social Fund of Kyrgyzstan and the Off-Budget Pension Fund under the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Uzbekistan participated in the negotiations. Ultimately, the parties signed a draft Agreement on State Social Insurance and Pension Provision. It is also noted that the document takes into account the legal peculiarities of both countries.
As the Social Fund emphasizes, the main goal of the agreements is to ensure equal rights for citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to receive insurance and state pensions, as well as to eliminate double payment of insurance contributions.
In particular, the document signed in Tashkent provides for:
– summation of insurance experience for the assignment of pensions;
– payment of pensions directly to citizens, regardless of their country of residence, without deducting delivery costs;
– regulations on secondments and extensions of terms to avoid double deductions.
According to Kyrgyz officials, the implementation of this agreement will strengthen bilateral relations between the republics and create additional opportunities for social and economic cooperation, including through major infrastructure projects such as the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway.
The issue of mutual recognition of pension eligibility is particularly pressing in relations between Russia and the former Soviet republics, as many people from these countries work in Russia or have moved there permanently. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian authorities processed and paid pensions to immigrants from CIS countries, regardless of where the emigrant, who had obtained a Russian passport, paid insurance and other contributions. However, in 2023, the document regulating this provision lost its legal force.
Moscow then began concluding separate agreements. For example, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan once again became partners in the "pension program" under the relevant agreement with members of the Eurasian Economic Union. This means that migrants from these Central Asian republics in Russia will have their work experience from the Soviet era, their independence—until 2021 (the beginning of the process of denunciation of Russia's agreement with the CIS countries), and their work in Russia taken into account.
Tajikistan has a separate agreement according to which the Russian Federation takes into account all work experience acquired by an emigrant in their previous place of residence when calculating their pension.
Currently, such a document has not yet been signed between Russia and Uzbekistan, although the parties have been negotiating at various levels for several years.
