On January 10th, an Uzbek-Japanese business forum was held in Tashkent within the framework of the visit of Japan’s State Minister of the Economy, Trade and Industry, Ryosuke Kozuki. The forum gathered together the heads of key ministries, industry associations, as well as representatives from around 200 major companies from the two countries, the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan has reported.
Minister Kozuki and the Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan, Laziz Kudratov delivered the opening remarks at the forum. Kudratov outlined Uzbekistan’s key achievements in economic development and the improvement of the investment climate, highlighting the introduction of effective legislative norms aimed at protecting the rights of investors, the availability of energy resources, and the possibility of duty-free exports to EU markets within the framework of the EU’s GSP+ program for Uzbekistan.
Both sides emphasized the importance of intensifying direct contact between representatives of the business circles of the two countries. Alternative energy, IT, education, medicine, tourism, and digitization were named the most promising areas for joint investment projects.
The forum also included panel discussions on the topics of “Prospects for Energy Transformation,” and “Digital Transformation in Industrial Development: Japanese startups as a tool for the development of Uzbekistan’s economy.” Fourteen cooperation documents in the fields of education, IT-technologies, alternative energy, medicine, and the use of space technologies in geodesy and cartography were signed.
