The 32nd annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) entitled: Investing in Compliance will be held in Samarkand on May 16-18.
The session Investment Perspectives of Uzbekistan was added to the agenda of the business forum. It will discuss the growth prospects of the country's economy and investment opportunities.
Also, the three-day agenda of the event included a series of panel discussions with the participation of experts on various topics. Sessions focus on regions and individual countries.
Including:
- international trade;
- energy security, renewable energy sources;
- short and long-term problems in the modern world;
- the importance of small and medium business for the economy;
- digitization in emerging markets;
- EBRD’s Green Cities program;
- EBRD's leading macroeconomic study - Regional Economic Prospects.
- Relations of Uzbekistan with EBRD
Uzbekistan became a member of EBRD on April 30, 1992. Together with Switzerland, Ukraine, Liechtenstein, Turkmenistan, Serbia, Montenegro and Moldova, the republic is added in the Switzerland group of EBRD.
Bank’s representative office was opened in Tashkent in May 1993, in Andijan in October 2019, and in Urganch in June 2021.
To date, a total of 129 projects worth more than 4 billion euros have been implemented in the country with the participation of EBRD.
In particular, EBRD provided 839 million euros to projects in Uzbekistan in 2022, which is 30% more than in 2021.
