Get to Know Outcomes of Tashkent Int'l Investment Forum

The first Tashkent International Investment Forum has completed its work in the capital. The event brought together more than 2 thousand participants from 56 countries of the world on its site.

As a result of the Forum, a package of firm contracts and investment agreements worth $7.8 billion was signed. Preliminary agreements were also reached on the implementation of projects worth $3.5 billion.

It is expected that the Forum will become a permanent platform for attracting foreign investment in the economy of both Uzbekistan and the entire Central Asian region.

On March 24, the First Tashkent International Investment Forum kicked off in the capital. President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the plenary session, reports “Dunyo” IA correspondent.

According to the press service of the President of Uzbekistan, the session was also attended by the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the Asian Development Bank Masatsugu Asakawa, Minister of Investment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Khalid Al-Falih, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization Xiangchen Zhang, Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Konstantin Limitovsky, Senior Vice President of the International Finance Corporation Stephanie von Friedeburg. The meeting was moderated by Jonathan Charles, best known as a news presenter for BBC World News and currently the Director of Communications at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The Head of the state welcomed the forum participants and addressed the event, telling about the reforms and transformations carried out in the country over the past few years, as well as outlined priority areas for its further development.

The president noted that for many centuries Uzbekistan, located on the territory of ancient Mawarannahr in the center of the Great Silk Road, attracted the attention of merchants, businessmen and entrepreneurs from different regions of the world, since ancient times famous as the territory where caravan routes intersect across the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.

Uzbekistan, which has a 3-thousand-year history of statehood, has long been a center where trade, economy, science, culture and art have been actively developing.