Uzbek President signs decree to reorganize State Demonopolization Committee

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a decree on measures on further improving antimonopoly regulation and development of competition on 26 February 2010. The document was adopted in order to improve anti-monopoly regulation, gradual development of competition climate, strengthen control over activity of natural monopoly enterprises and avoiding unjustified raise of prices, boosting work on financial rehabilitation of insolvent enterprises. |read|

Small Businesses Association to be created in Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Association of small business and private entrepreneurship will be created in Uzbekistan. President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a decree “On measures on further improving antimonopoly regulation and development of competition” on 26 February 2010. |read|

EU to strengthen ties with Central Asia under Spanish Presidency

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Spanish Special Mission ambassador for Central Asia, Santiago Chamorro, speaking on Thursday during the forum “The evolution of relations between the European Union and Central Asia”, said that the Spanish Presidency will work to develop the EU’s strategy towards Central Asia, ensuring that this will be based on “the pillars of political dialogue, human rights, energy and security ”. "[Spanish Foreign] Minister [Miguel Angel] Moratinos has great interest in Central Asia, he has been there four times on official visits, and will go there twice more over the coming months, at the end of April and in early June - he will have made more official visits to Central Asia than any other minister of the European Union", the diplomat added. |read|

Some 135 objects privatized in Uzbekistan in 2009

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Some 135 enterprises and objects have been privatized in Uzbekistan in line with the Denationalization and Privatization Programme, according to the State Property Committee of Uzbekistan. Largest number of objects was privatized in Tashkent city (36. |read|

Share on non-state sector in Uzbekistan’s GDP makes up 81.3% in 2009

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Gross domestic product (GDP) of Uzbekistan made up 48.097 trillion soums, or grew by 8.1% year-on-year, the report of the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said. |read|