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What types of crimes did the people of Uzbekistan commit in 2023?

Information on the types of criminal cases the courts considered in 2023 was provided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan. According to the report, criminal courts considered 58,418 cases involving 73,797 individuals in 2023 - 1,244 people received rehabilitation and an acquittal, whilst a total of 55,763 people were found guilty; of these, 17,396 received prison sentences, 37,077 received other types of sentences, and 1,290 received conditional sentences. Of those found guilty, 49,297 men, 6,466 women, 20,922 young people (including 1,911 minors), and 2,123 people over the age of 6o. In addition, 7,362 people were freed from prison in connection with the imposition of non-custodial sentences; 33,612 people were released on parole; 12,286 people had their sentences remitted; and 13,522 people had the charges against them dropped because the preliminary investigation found the authorities had unfairly targeted them. The majority of cases during the reporting period involved fraud; other offenses included theft or robbery; the transfer, storage, and other activities related to narcotics, their analogues, or psychotropic substances; the preparation of documents, stamps, seals, forms, forgery, sale, or use of them; bullying; purposeful infliction of moderately severe bodily injury; and other offenses that fall under the category of bribery. In total, 14,698 people were freed from criminal responsibility as a result of the Reconciliation Institute's effective use, whilst 8,586 people received non-custodial sentences in exchange for making restitution for the material harm they caused. In the appeals process, 10,843 criminal cases involving 15,720 individuals were taken into account. The rulings rendered by the first-instance courts against 1,715 individuals were overturned, and the rulings made against 3,556 individuals were modified. The Criminal Trial Panel of the Supreme Court reviewed 5,130 criminal cases involving 5,855 individuals. Lower court rulings against 1,143 people were overturned, and rulings against 509 people were modified. Additionally, at the cassation instance, 402 criminal cases involving 467 individuals were reviewed multiple times. Court rulings against 121 people were modified, while rulings against 288 people were revoked.

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Tashkent To Introduce Cable Car To Help Resolve Transport Problem

The Tashkent municipality and Chinese company Beijing North Bartholet Ropeway Technology Co., Ltd. have agreed on a project to introduce a cable car service to help in solving the Uzbek capital’s transport and environmental problems, the press service of the Tashkent municipality said. The agreement was signed during the Tashkent mayor’s visit to the Chinese city of Shenzhen on January 23rd, where he met with the management of Beijing North Bartholet Ropeway Technology, a joint venture with the Swiss company Bartholet Maschinenbau AG, a world leader in ropeways production. According to the agreement, the Chinese company is going to invest in a project to duplicate ground municipal transport in Tashkent with cable taxis. The project will first be presented to the public, whose recommendations and suggestions would be taken into account by the Chinese company’s designers, the municipality said. The Uzbek Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change earlier this month stated that emissions from motor vehicles largely the cause for increasing levels of air pollution in Tashkent. On average 730,000 vehicles are on the move in Tashkent every day, with between 160,000 to 300,000 entering the capital from the regions. To resolve the problem, the Tashkent municipality intends to develop green public transport.

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EBRD Invested More Than €1.2bn In Central Asian Economies In 2023

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) says it invested more than €1.2bn ($1.3bn) in projects across Central Asia in 2023 to stimulate the region’s sustainable growth. Uzbekistan remained the leading recipient of EBRD funding in the region for the fourth year running, attracting more than €700m ($760m). The remaining €518m ($560m) were channeled to support projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan. In Uzbekistan, the EBRD continued investing in renewable energy power generation and low-carbon technologies. It financed the construction of three greenfield solar power plants with a total installed capacity of nearly 900 MW. The bank provided funds to ACWA Power Wind Karatau to finance the construction of a 100 MW wind power plant in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan. It also provided a sovereign loan to modernise 118 pumping stations and improve the sustainability of water supply for irrigation in the densely populated Fergana Valley. Samarkand became the first city in the country to join the EBRD Green Cities programme, and is planning to deploy ecologically friendly electric buses as part of this engagement. In the financial sector, the bank continued working with local financial intermediaries such as SQB, Hamkorbank and Ipak Yuli Bank to support SMEs and promote green lending. Highlights of the EBRD’s work in Kazakhstan include the launch of the GEFF Kazakhstan II and an investment in a local currency bond issued by the country’s transmission system operator, KEGOC. The funds will help make the country’s electrical grid more sustainable and reliable. The bank’s loan to China Power International Holding and Visor International will be used to build, operate and connect the 100 MW Shokpar wind power plant to the transmission grid. The EBRD’s loan to Kazakhstan’s largest private rolling stock operator, Eastcomtrans, will help expand container-handling capacity at one of the most congested junctions near Almaty and address the issue of bottlenecks along the Trans-Caspian corridor. Last year marked the completion of the street lighting system in Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen), which allowed energy-efficient LED street lights to be installed on 150 streets. In the financial sector, the bank extended a new loan to the country’s leading microlender KMF to support green lending and women’s entrepreneurship. In Kyrgyzstan, the EBRD supported the modernisation of water supply services in the Batken and Jalal-Abad oblasts. The bank signed a number of sovereign projects aimed at modernising key transport and energy infrastructure, which will help improve the country’s connectivity and climate resilience. These projects included loans to upgrade a 30km section of the Issyk-Kul Lake ring road, increase the reliability of the national electricity transmission and distribution grid, and rehabilitate and modernise the Lebedinovskaya hydropower plant. The EBRD also completed the Bishkek landfill project last year, which will provide major environmental benefits for the more than one million people living in the country’s capital. The completion of three infrastructure projects in Tajikistan allowed more than 400,000 people in 13 municipalities across the country to enjoy better access to clean and safe drinking water. Last year the EBRD launched the GEFF Tajikistan II and extended new GEFF loans to Bank...

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Mirziyoyev Speaks At Uzbek-Chinese Investment Forum

On January 25th, as part of his state visit to China, Uzbekistan's president Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the Uzbek-Chinese Investment Forum in the city of Shenzhen. The forum brought together heads of government agencies and regions in the two countries, and more than 600 representatives of large Chinese companies. Mr Mirziyoyev outlined priorities and promising areas for Uzbek-Chinese cooperation. These included simplifying the procedure for attracting funds from Chinese financial institutions for infrastructure development projects, industrial cooperation in priority sectors of the economy, and processing of strategic raw materials. Mirziyoyev stressed the need to adopt Chinese technologies in sustainable agriculture, and to introduce scientific approaches to land rehabilitation.

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Chinese Company Launches Assembly Of Electric Vehicles In Uzbekistan

On January 25th, as part of his state visit to China, Uzbekistan's president Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the headquarters of the Chinese company BYD in Shenzhen. The company is a leading global producer of new energy vehicles and next-generation batteries. Mr Mirziyoyev and BYD's president Wang Chuanfu took part in the launch ceremony of a project for the assembly of hybrid and electric vehicles in Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh region, with a capacity of 50,000 vehicles per year. Mr Mirziyoyev expressed hopes to expand the model range in the future, and increase the production capacity to 300,000 vehicles per year, his press service reported. He also supported the Chinese company’s plans to establish the assembly of BYD electric buses in Uzbekistan with the localization of spare parts production and creation of engineering and service centers.

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Italy Proposes Project To Mitigate Climate Change Consequences In Aral Sea

On January 24th Italy’s deputy minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, and deputy minister for the environment and energy security, Vannia Gava, held a meeting with the ambassadors of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in Italy. At the meeting, the top management of SOGESID SPA, an engineering and specialized technical support company wholly owned by the Italian state, presented a project proposal to mitigate the consequences of climate change in the Aral Sea, an area of Central Asia at high risk of desertification. The project idea, which envisages targeted interventions for the integrated environmental regeneration of the Aral Sea basin, also falls within the framework of the Italian presidency of the EU-Central Asia High-Level Conference on Environment and Water, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said. During the meeting, it was also proposed to consider the involvement of the Italian Climate Fund, the main national public instrument for pursuing the objectives undertaken by Italy in the context of international agreements on climate and environment. The meeting also discussed issues of content for the upcoming meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the “Italy + Central Asia” format, which will be held in 2024 in Rome, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said.