Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 14 April 2019, Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to Israel Said Rustamov met with the executive director of the large engineering company LR Group, Ami Lustig.

The LR Group specializes in the development, financing, construction of large-scale integrated projects and their management in such areas as agriculture, energy medicine, infrastructure construction.

During the talks, the participation of the Israeli company in the implementation of a number of socially significant projects in Uzbekistan, in particular in the fields of medicine and agriculture with the involvement of Israeli experience and know-how, was discussed, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan said.

One of such projects is the construction of a diagnostic center and oncology clinic in Uzbekistan with advanced technological equipment and highly qualified personnel from both the number of specialists from leading Israeli medical institutions and domestic medical personnel trained by a specially designed program. Interest was also expressed in establishing a nephrology center for the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease in Uzbekistan.

Taking into account the leading position of Israel in highly productive dairy cattle breeding, as well as the similarity of the climatic features of our countries, the possibility of creating a high-tech dairy complex in Uzbekistan was considered.

To implement these and other promising projects, LR Group proposed to attract funding from international financial and credit institutions, as well as with its Austrian partner Agrotec, to create with the Uzbek side a trilateral investment fund in which funds from foreign private investors will be accumulated.

An agreement was reached on organizing the next visit of representatives of the LR Group to Uzbekistan as part of participation in the planned Uzbek-Israeli agroforum in May of this year with substantive negotiations in the relevant departments of the republic.