On July 25 this year, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov held talks with Vice President for Economic Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Nahavandian via videoconference. The parties discussed the current issues of cooperation in order to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic on the economies of the two countries, as well as Uzbekistan – Iran trade-economic, investment, financial-technical and transport-logistics partnership.
The National Bank of Uzbekistan provides assistance to business entities in financing promising projects for procurement, processing and export of agricultural products.
Issues of economic reconstruction of Afghanistan, practical aspects of expanding cooperation in transport, energy, trade, agriculture, education and health were discussed during the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Economics of the format of trilateral cooperation “Uzbekistan – United States – Afghanistan”, held on July 21, 2020 under the chairmanship of the Uzbek side.
As of July 1, 2020, 2068.3 tons of watermelons worth 6.4 thousand were exported from Uzbekistan.
As of July 1, 2020, Uzbekistan exported 31.3 thousand tons of cherries, which is 14.6 thousand tons more compared to the same period last year. This has been reported by the State Statistics Committee.
