Uzbekistan and Belarus ink roadmap for development of cooperation

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov and Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas signed an action plan (roadmap) for development of cooperation between two countries.

Within the framework of the document, the parties intend to implement more than 100 measures for development of bilateral trade in goods and services, ensuring on a reciprocal basis access to the parties’ markets, cooperation in the field of industrial cooperation, agriculture, light industry, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, construction, petrochemistry, and energy.

In particular, Uzbekistan and Belarus intend to develop humanitarian and interregional cooperation.

There are plans to supply Belarusian wood products and consumer goods to Uzbekistan, MAZs for US$2 million, MTZ tractors for US$5 million. BelAZ is ready to take part in tenders for the supply of equipment.

The sides will organize mutual food supplies, work out possible exports of Belarusian malt and sugar, Uzbekistan is ready to increase the supply of dried fruits. The volume of mutual trade in fruits and vegetables and other products should grow to US$10 million a year. In Minsk, a trading house or a store of Uzbek goods may appear.

Belarus and Uzbekistan will work on creation of joint production of milk, medicines, medical equipment, mini-tractors and attachments, as well as bicycles, a joint transport and logistics enterprise. Belarusian organizations will help build modern dairy farms in Uzbekistan.

Belarus also intends to enter the Uzbek cotton-textile cluster - a project for construction of spinning, weaving and finishing factories will be implemented.