Uzbekistan: airways to fly to Burgas and Barcelona

Uzbekistan Airways is planning to launch charter flights to Burgas and Barcelona this summer. Charter flights aim at popularizing and realizing Uzbekistan’s tourism potential on Bulgaria and Spain’s markets. Recent charters to Bulgaria in summer 2016 and the Maldives in winter 2016-2017 have brought more foreign tourists to Uzbekistan and showed that Uzbek citizens were…

Uzbekistan: small business development fund to have 100 billion soums in authorised capital

The February 10 Presidential Resolution established the Small Business Development Guarantee Fund, a joint-stock company with offices across the regions. The document aims at supporting small business by opening access to commercial banks’ credits. The funds will help procure equipment, expand product range, and promote small businesses’ role in the socio-economic development. The fund’s authorized…

Uzbekistan: South Korea interested in textile industry

The Ministry of foreign economic relations, investments and trade held a meeting with representatives of the delegation of the Korean Federation of textile industries (KOFOTI) and the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). During the meeting, detailed information about the benefits and preferences created for foreign investors, particularly in the textile sector, as well as…

Uzbekistan: trade turnover with Russia at $4.2 billion in 2016

The Russian delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of Russian Government Dmitry Kozak attended the eighteenth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the two countries in Tashkent. During the meeting the parties exchanged information and discussed issues of implementation of Protocol decisions of the seventeenth IGC meeting, which took place on March 25,…