Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov of Uzbekistan and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Mishustin, held a bilateral meeting, with the Russian government's press service reporting on the discussions and agreements reached during the encounter.
Mishustin highlighted the energy sector as a promising area for collaboration and emphasized the construction of nuclear power plants using Russian technologies. He stressed the significance of this project, especially in light of past winter power outages in Uzbekistan, stating,
"The implementation of the [nuclear] power plant project will help meet Uzbekistan’s electricity needs, create thousands of new jobs, and unlock the industrial potential of Uzbekistan."
Furthermore, Russia is actively developing a comprehensive cooperation program aimed at enhancing Uzbekistan's railway transport infrastructure. Russian investors have expressed their readiness to participate in the modernization of airport facilities within Uzbekistan.
Prime Minister Aripov underscored the ongoing industrial cooperation between Uzbekistan and Russia, spanning diverse sectors such as mining and metallurgy, energy, chemicals, agriculture, mechanical engineering, and electrical industries. Plans are in place to establish industrial parks in the Navoi and Bukhara regions with Russian involvement, bringing the total number of such parks to four.
Aripov expressed support for the project to create an international North-South corridor, as well as a new multimodal transport corridor encompassing Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He highlighted the importance of constructing a railway along the trans-Afghan corridor.
Additionally, Aripov called for expediting the conclusion of an agreement on mutual pension provision and emphasized the need for amendments to the procedure for the organized recruitment of Uzbek workers, as well as accelerating the opening of representative offices of the Agency for External Labor Migration in various regions of Russia.
As a result of the meeting, both parties entered into agreements regarding the supply of cotton yarn, cooperation in the field of nuclear medicine, and the provision of free technical assistance from Rosreestr for the creation of a state cadastral valuation system in Uzbekistan during 2023-2024.
Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov mentioned the possibility of revisiting the evaluation of a project to organize the assembly of a new generation Lada Vesta car in Uzbekistan, as AvtoVAZ had previously considered launching car assembly in the republic.
Manturov highlighted the financial aspect of mutual trade, with more than 50% of payments made in rubles, and he underscored that the volume of accumulated investments from Russian investors in Uzbekistan exceeds 1 trillion rubles ($10.34bn).
The Russian minister also revealed plans to establish two industrial parks in Samarkand and Bukhara, with metallurgy, automotive industry, pharmaceuticals, railway, and agricultural engineering identified as promising areas for collaboration.
Earlier Daryo reported that during a joint commission meeting between the governments of Uzbekistan and Russia on September 18, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin expressed Russia's readiness to build schools in Uzbekistan. These schools will offer education in Russian and adhere to Russian curricula.
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