Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan and Turkey signed 24 documents totaling US$679 million following the results of the Uzbek-Turkish business forum in Tashkent.

In particular, the parties signed 10 investment projects with a total value of US$514.7 million. Also, 15 trade contracts were signed for US$165.2 million.

The Uzbek-Turkish Business Forum was held on 28 June 2021 in Tashkent as part of the visit of the Turkish government delegation to Uzbekistan.

Casale has been selected by Enter Engineering Pte. to provide the technology and design of a new 495 000 tpy ammonia plant to be constructed in Yangiyer, near Samarkand, in the Sirdarya region of Uzbekistan.

Casale will also have the opportunity to participate in the future development of the project.

The ammonia plant will be part of a large fertilizer complex that will produce 900 000 tpy of mineral fertilizer and is expected to become fully operational in 2023.

The 84th meeting of the government delegations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan’s Demarcation Commission took place on June 7-11, 2021, in the city of Almaty, stated on the website of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, Kazinform reports.

The sides continued the preparation of draft outcome documents on state border demarcation and discussed the draft agreement between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the demarcation of the Kazakh-Uzbek state border.

The next meeting is set to take place in Uzbekistan.

Remote territories can be supplied with electricity through autonomous hydrogen power plants. The experience of SovTest (Russia) in this direction was presented in Tashkent at the INNOPROM 2021 exhibition by Denis Urmanov, Deputy General Director.

On 9 April 2021, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution “On measures to develop renewable and hydrogen energy in the Republic of Uzbekistan”. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Islamic Republic of Iran can ease transit route for Uzbekistan to the global markets, reports Mehr.

Speaking to reporters after his meeting with his Uzbek counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov on Monday, Zarif pointed to the common history between Islamic Republic of Iran and Uzbekistan and stated that historical commonalities between Iran and Uzbekistan will expand and enhance preliminaries of friendship between the two countries to a great extent.

On March 24, a meeting was organized between the leadership and experts of Uzbekistan State Space Agency Uzbekcosmos and Finland’s NOKIA Corporation, via videoconference, reports “Dunyo” IA correspondent.

The parties exchanged views on promising areas of cooperation.

On March 12, 2021, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, via videoconference.

Germany, being one of the leading global powers, confidently occupies a leading position in various sectors and spheres of the global economy as a recognized industrial and technological flagship.

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), delivered 131,320 kg of food assistance worth almost $400,000 to Uzbekistan. This food assistance will reach more than 35,000 of the most vulnerable Uzbekistani citizens and be distributed through more than 144 health and social protection facilities. This includes facilities that are providing COVID-19 related quarantine services, long-term care to patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), to orphanages and mental health facilities.

Uzbekistan's officials held negotiations with Masahiro Yagi, the president of Yagiharu Co., Ltd trading company, which were organized via a videoconference, the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Tokyo reports.

During the videoconference, the issues of supply of textile products to the Japanese market were discussed alongside options for exporting goods using different types of transportation.