Uzbekistan and Tajikistan holds meeting of joint business council
12/03/2018 15:15
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan holds meeting of joint business council
12/03/2018 15:15
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan and Tajikistan held the first meeting of the joint business council on 8 March 2018. This was reported by the press service of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan.
The meeting of the council was held in Dushanbe on the eve of the visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Tajikistan.
Over 140 representatives of small business, private entrepreneurs took part in the meeting.
The Uzbek-Tajik Business Council was established on 13 October 2017 in Tashkent and is a non-governmental entity uniting representatives of the business community of the two states with the aim of expanding economic cooperation, establishing direct contacts and dialogue between business and financial circles, and promoting practical promotion of bilateral projects.
The chairmen of the Chambers of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of both countries are heads of the council respectively. The first meeting of the Business Council was attended by the chairmen of the National Parts of the Business Council of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, representatives of the ministries and departments of the two countries, as well as business circles and members of the Business Council.
The participants of the event noted the large-scale reforms carried out in Uzbekistan in 2017 to ensure openness of the economy, create a favorable investment climate, a strong base for protecting the interests of entrepreneurs, and full support for entrepreneurial activities.
Along with this, priority directions of the Year of support of active entrepreneurship, innovative ideas and technologies were underlined. The business circles of the two countries highly assessed the prospects for the development of trade and economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan using the potential of the renewed 9 new border checkpoints between the republics.
During the event, the delegation of business circles of Uzbekistan was informed about the benefits, preferences and opportunities for establishing joint ventures on the territory of Tajikistan, as well as on the territory of the operating free economic zones of the Republic of Tajikistan, which established large preferences and benefits for foreign investors.
The participants of the meeting were informed about the signing within the framework of the State visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Republic of Tajikistan of an intergovernmental agreement between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on the allocation of credit facilities in the amount of US$100 million on preferential terms aimed at supporting small businesses in Tajikistan.
As a result of the event, the parties signed the minutes of the meeting, envisaging for the Action Plan for 2018, as well as 21 bilateral trade, economic and investment documents for a total amount of US$20.5 million.
Within the framework of the visit, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon attended the opening of the National Exhibition-Fair of Industrial Products of Uzbekistan in Dushanbe. On the closed arena with an area of 1.5 thousand square meters. Uzbek goods were presented, in particular, electrical, cable, leather, chemical, textile, pharmaceutical, household chemicals and equipment, sanitary ware, furniture and electrical industries. In the open pavilion with an area of 500 m, cars, agricultural machinery, freight transport, buses and other products of Uzbek production are exhibited.
During the visit on 9 March 2018, Dushanbe hosted a business forum with participation of entrepreneurs of the two countries.
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