Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Uzbekistan will enhance trade and transport links with Iran in order to increase trade volumes, the country's foreign ministry said here on Monday.

Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss bilateral relations, as well as neighboring Afghanistan, the ministry said.

Both sides discussed the implementation of interregional transport and logistics projects, which are aimed at increasing the volume of mutual trade.

TASHKENT, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev suggested naming 2021 as the Year of Supporting Youth and Strengthening Public Health during his annual address to the country's parliament on Tuesday here.

"Investment in the harmonious development of the younger generation pays back to the society tenfold, hundredfold," he told deputies, adding that the coronavirus pandemic has proved the necessity of reforming the primary health care system, sanitary and epidemiological services radically.

TASHKENT, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Uzbekistan has taken back 25 women and 73 children from the refugee camps in Syria by a special flight organized on the instructions of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the government said Tuesday.

The returnees will be provided by the government with medical, psychological, material and moral assistance, the government said.

At the same time, the country's special services are constantly carrying out measures to bring Uzbek citizens back from camps in the Middle East.

27 Nov 2020; MEMO: Uzbekistan plans to repatriate another group of its citizens, mostly women and children, from Syria where they are staying at crowded camps with other families of Daesh fighters, an Uzbek government source told Reuters on Friday, Reuters reports.

A government delegation from Tashkent has visited the Al-Hawl and Roj camps in the Kurdish-controlled part of Syria and met over 100 Uzbeks staying there to discuss their return home, the source said.

TASHKENT, Nov 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbekistan plans to implement 52 projects worth nine billion U.S. dollars, to start deep processing of natural gas and produce value-added products, as well as, create new jobs, the press service of Uzbek president said today.

The projects, presented to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, cover inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and the production of polymers, it said.

TASHKENT, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbek state oil and gas company, Uzbekneftegaz, and Russia’s state development corporation, VEB.RF, signed a memorandum on 650 million U.S. dollars credit line, to boost hydrocarbon production in Uzbekistan, Uzbekneftegaz said Monday.

The memorandum was signed last week, following talks in Moscow, the Uzbek energy firm said, adding that, this is a second credit line provided by VEB.RF.

TASHKENT, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbekistan is planning to allocate 1.9 billion U.S. dollars, to the healthcare system in 2021, amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, president’s press service said today.

During a government meeting, to discuss the parameters of the state budget for 2021, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, stressed the need to take into account the ongoing pandemic and the decline of global economic activity, said the press service.

TASHKENT, May 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbekistan’s Energy Ministry, announced invitation to bid for the design and construction of three hydro-power plants in southern Kashkadaria region, with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ministry said, Saturday.

Uzbekistan received funding from the ADB for the Sustainable Hydro-power Project, under which Rabat, Chappasuy and Tamshush hydro-power plants on the Aksu River will be built, according to the ministry.

TASHKENT, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Around 70,000 people have been evacuated after the Sardoba dam in the central Syrdarya region burst, flooding residential areas and crop fields, the Uzbek Emergency Ministry said Saturday.

At least 56 people were injured and subsequently hospitalized in the region due to flooding, according to the ministry.

The dam burst in the early morning on Friday after heavy rain and gales caused serious damage to settlements, communication networks and agricultural land, the ministry said.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The government of Uzbekistan is establishing a nationwide movement billed ‘Kindness and Support’ to help the country weather the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a statement to Bernama, Uzbekistan’s Embassy in Malaysia said that the initiative – the brainchild of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev – is intended to further ensure the sufficient supply of food and medical facilities to families in need and to temporarily jobless individuals.