Over 60 agreements to be signed following 2nd Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum
MINSK, 27 August (BelTA) – Over 60 agreements and memorandums worth about $50 million are planned to be signed following the second Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum, Chairperson of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan Tanzila Narbaeva said during a plenary session of the business forum on 27 August, BelTA has learned.
“The effective results of the first Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum has become the basis for further fruitful economic partnership and inter-parliamentary cooperation between our countries,” Tanzila Narbaeva said. “Today we can give many examples of our entrepreneurs who have successfully implemented joint projects based on the agreements signed during the first forum. Therefore, Natalya Ivanovna Kochanova and I have decided to continue this positive experience. Today, about 200 businesswomen are taking part in the second Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum.”
According to her, the forum’s goal is to bring entrepreneurs together, create all conditions for further strengthening of cooperation between them, open new areas of cooperation, advance partnership between the two countries to new heights. “Following the forum, over 60 agreements and memorandums worth about $50 million are planned to be signed. This is not the limit. We will continue to work in this area,” Tanzila Narbaeva emphasized.
A Belarusian delegation led by Natalya Kochanova, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic, is on an official visit to Uzbekistan. These days, Tashkent is hosting the second Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum. About 100 representatives of the business community and state agencies are taking part in the forum from the Belarusian side. The Council of the Republic recalled the results of the first Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum: 14 memorandums and agreements on cooperation, including an agreement on the establishment of a joint leather and footwear manufacturing enterprise, and 15 contracts worth over Br90 million (350 billion Uzbek sums) were signed.
