Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – On 21 February 2020, the Ambassador of Uzbekistan Ravshan Usmanov held talks in Kuala Lumpur with the Secretary General of the Malaysian-Uzbek Chamber of Commerce (MUCC) Raj Darayraj.

MUCC was founded in October 2019 by Malaysian industrial and trading enterprises in order to intensify trade, economic and investment cooperation with Uzbekistan.

During the meeting, issues of further development of bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation were discussed by establishing a direct dialogue between business representatives of the two countries to explore the possibility of implementing joint investment projects and organizing export deliveries of Uzbek products to Malaysia.

As a result of the negotiations, an agreement was reached on organizing a visit on 5-12 March of the MUCC members, headed by its president Poobalan Marison, to the republic, including the Khorezm and Bukhara regions, to sign a cooperation agreement with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as discuss practical aspects of the implementation of the following investment projects by Malaysian companies:

- the opening in Urgench by the Phills and Midlands Aviation Pacific Asia companies of a training center for pilots and a modern logistics hub to organize the transportation of goods from Uzbekistan to foreign countries;

- construction of a hotel in Bukhara by the NL Innovations company;

- Study by Eko Enviro Services International of the possibility of building a plant in Khorezm region for the processing of household waste for the production of electric energy.