June 03, 2009
Politics:
President of South Korea thanks President of Uzbekistan for warm reception
President Visits Brazil, Lays a Solid Foundation of Relations
Uzbek, Indonesian FMs hold consultations
Economics:
Oil and Gas Uzbekistan results summed up
Israeli technology and experience for Uzbek Farmers
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari opens flight from Navoi to Delhi
Society:
For children, with children
Softline launches Prometric Testing Center in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Pochtasi presents new postal stamps
POLICY
PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA THANKS PRESIDENT OF UZBEKISTAN FOR WARM RECEPTION
President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak sent a letter to President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, in which he expressed gratitude for the warm reception during his visit in Uzbekistan.
“The meeting with you strengthened my confidence that Korea and Uzbekistan are partners that really need each other and can go along the way of constant cooperation for joint prosperity,” the South Korean leader said in his message, National News Agency UzA reported.
“I sincerely hope that we will continue closely cooperating for successful implementation of the main joint projects discussed with you,” he added.
Thanking the head of Uzbekistan for hospitality, Lee Myung-Bak said he hoped Islam Karimov would visit South Korea at any convenient time.
As reported earlier, the President of South Korea paid a visit to Uzbekistan on 10-12 May.
PRESIDENT VISITS BRAZIL, LAYS A SOLID FOUNDATION OF RELATIONS
On May 27-29 this year on the invitation of the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov paid an official visit to Brazil, Information Agency Jahon reported.
On May 27 the official ceremony of welcoming the top-level guest took place at the airport with the guard of honor to have lined up in honor of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The national anthems of Uzbekistan and Brazil sounded in the accompaniment of 21 volleys that have been fired in honor of the Uzbek Leader.
On May 28 the Presidents of Uzbekistan and Brazil held official talks. At them the two leaders have exchanged views on the Uzbek-Brazilian relations, problems of regional and international nature of mutual interest.
President Islam Karimov said that Uzbekistan stood for a comprehensive development of cooperation with this leading country in Latin America. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has also underscored that Brazil considered Uzbekistan, the leading state in Central Asia, to be its reliable partner.
During the Brasilia talks Presidents Islam Karimov and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have comprehensively discussed the development of the Uzbek-Brazilian relations. They have exchanged views on the problems of consolidating security in Central Asia, the situation in Afghanistan, as well as processes now undergoing in Latin America. The two leaders have also discussed the global financial-economic crisis, as much as the opportunities of lowering its impacts and mitigating its consequences.
Uzbekistan and Brazil occupy an important place in their respective regions. As a matter of fact, Uzbekistan has come forward with an initiative of establishing the common Central Asian market. Brazil is the most developed and economically powerful state of the South American common market of Mercosur, also known as the Common Market of the South.
Uzbekistan acts as an initiator of the establishment of the Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Central Asia. At the same time, Brazil has joined Latin America’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Both Uzbekistan and Brazil stand for reforming the United Nations, increasing its role and significance in addressing the international problems. The two states also support the principle of ‘multi-polarity of the world’. President Islam Karimov and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are unanimous in the issues of preventing such threats as terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, organized transnational crime, and stand for a close international cooperation in combating them.
Uzbekistan and Brazil enjoy profound opportunities to extend cooperation in aircraft building, machinery, petrochemical production, textile branch, and leather industry. Apart from that, the two states have good opportunities of cooperating in such spheres as processing of agricultural products, tourism, transport, geological exploration, and manufacturing of construction materials.
Uzbekistan may turn for Brazil into a connecting link not only with the states of Central Asia, but also with many countries of the CIS. The scheduled transcontinental inter-modal logistics center in the city of Navoi may serve as a good example for the aforesaid. The Center – by the way, the only of its kind in CIS area – is being established along with cooperation with the Republic of Korea.
The South Korea is a strategic partner of both Uzbekistan and Brazil. From this point of view, it is fully logical that on early May this year Tashkent hosted the Uzbek-Korean summit, and now the Uzbek-Brazilian top-level negotiations took place in Brazil.
On the outcomes of talks in the city of Brasilia the sides adopted the Joint Declaration between the Republic of Uzbekistan and Federative Republic of Brazil. Also, on the outcomes of negotiations the two governments signed the agreements on technical cooperation, economic and trade cooperation, cultural cooperation, relieving the diplomatic passport-holders to seek visas, cooperation in the area of agriculture and memorandum of cooperation in the area of tourism. The sides also signed a number of bilateral documents on cooperation between the ministries and agencies of the two countries.
On May 29 – the third day of his stay in Brazil – President Islam Karimov arrived in Rio de Janeiro and met with the Mayor of the city Eduardo Paes.
During the talks the sides have exchanged views on extending cooperation between Uzbekistan and Brazil in the sphere of city building, protecting and bettering the historical monuments, attracting tourists, improving the city infrastructure, as well as establishing the direct contacts and exchanging experience between the cities.
On the outcomes of the meeting the sides have signed the agreement of cooperation between the cities of Tashkent and Rio de Janeiro.
As a part of his stay in the city the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov visited the Maracana Stadium, considered to be the largest one in the world.
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov ended his official visit to the Federative Republic of Brazil. The arrangements secured during the visit, including over ten signed documents of cooperation in the trade-economic and technical spheres, in the area of culture, agriculture, tourism and sport, will take the relations between Uzbekistan and Brazil to a qualitatively new level.
UZBEK, INDONESIAN FMS HOLD CONSULTATIONS
Foreign Ministries of Uzbekistan and Indonesia held on May 29 a consultation in Tashkent on the level of deputy foreign ministers, according to the report of Information Portal Uzreport.
The sides exchanged opinion on current affairs and perspectives of bilateral cooperation, actual issues of international and regional character of mutual interests.
The sides also considered issues of regional security, situation in Afghanistan, perspectives of cooperation with such organizations as the SCO, CIS and ASEAN.
The parties noted close positions of two countries on actual global problems, including energy security, global financial-economic crisis, as well as water issues in Central Asia.
ECONOMY
OIL AND GAS UZBEKISTAN RESULTS SUMMED UP
Thirteenth international exhibition Oil and Gas Uzbekistan – OGU 2009 was held in Tashkent on May 12-14, 2009.
Three-day event was organized by ITE Uzbekistan, member of UFI, and its partner I.T.E. Exhibitions & Conferences Ltd (UK), ITE Moscow (Russia), GIMA (Germany) and ITECA (Kazakhstan), Uzreport Information Portal reported.
The organizers said that over 150 companies from 24 countries of the world present their products in such sections as Oil and Gas Mining (technology and equipment), Production of Oil Products, Engineering, Pipes and Pipelines, etc.
The organizers said over 90% participants supported their image and held negotiations with other companies. About 79% of exhibitors inked agreement and 97% of them established new contacts.
About 88% of responders said they studies perspectives of development of trade networks in the region and 97% confirmed their participation in next year's exhibition.
The organizers said about 15% of total exhibitors were from Uzbekistan and about 40% from the CIS states.
Within the exhibition, conference "International conference – guarantee of dynamic development of oil and gas sector in economy of Uzbekistan", which gathered over 500 participants from 32 countries.
ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE FOR UZBEK FARMERS
Israeli experts in the field of agriculture gave a seminar on sustainable development of cattle breading within the framework of the joint project UNDP - Mashav - Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management of Uzbekistan.
In the end of May leading experts from Israel Ran Solomon, Daniel Werner and Efraim Zuckerman trained a group of Uzbek farmers from Kui-Chirchik district of Tashkent region. The subject of the seminar was cattle rationing, nutrition and forage reserve and its influence on milk productivity. The participants were introduced to modern technologies and innovations in the field of agro chemistry and agronomy.
Israeli experts together with representatives of UNDP and the Israeli Embassy in Uzbekistan, visited farms in the Tashkent region and studied fodder growing and implementation of the knowledge attained in training courses in Israel and Uzbekistan in the work of the farmers.
During the seminars the experts stressed the importance of a diverse nutritive diet, including barley, triticale, pea and oats to increase productivity of cows. They advised on the proper pressing of silo and bin in order to preserve the correct micro flora.
According to the plan of the Joint project on sustainable development of livestock, Israeli experts on design of modern dairy farming and herd books will come to Uzbekistan in order to conduct seminars in June 2009.
UZBEKISTAN HAVO YOLLARI OPENS FLIGHT FROM NAVOI TO DELHI
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) carried out first freight flight from Navoi to Delhi, UzA reported. The flight was carried out with use of A-300 freight aircraft.
The Uzbek airline will carry out three flights a week on routes Navoi-Delhi-Navoi, Navoi-Bangkok-Navoi, Navoi-Mumbai-Navoi.
Soon, the company plans to launch flights on routes Seoul-Navoi-Milan, Seoul-Navoi-Brussels and Navoi-Moscow-Navoi.
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari also plans to launch new flights Navoi-Dubai-Navoi and Navoi-Almaty-Navoi in cooperation with Korean Air in the second half of 2009. The airline plans to launch other passenger flights.
SOCIETY
FOR CHILDREN, WITH CHILDREN
Traditional forum gathered over 120 children and teenagers.
As in the past years, the eighth forum of the Republican Children’s Organization (RCO) “Kamalak” activists was held in Semurg Camp. Motherland, friendship and love for nation are the three “whales” of the motto, on which the four-day program was built.
This year, experienced trainers have prepared educative seminars for participants of the forum on seven directions: “Golden Legacy”, “Spirituality and Enlightenment”, “Patriotism”, “Love and Mercy”, “Hope”, “EcoSan” and “For Healthy Generation”. On these seminars children learned how to create innovative projects and how to realize them in practice. Moreover, the forum included various contests, competitions and meetings with scientists and art celebrities.
“This forum was organized to gather talented children and teenagers together and help them in revealing their abilities,” said Muradjon Zufarov, head specialist of RCO “Kamalak”. “Children were able to exchange with their opinions about issues of organization activity, entrepreneurship, skill, and formation of harmoniously developed personality. Results of activity of sardors’ council were summed up and particular drafts for the next 2009/2010 academic year were made.”
During the forum there were elections of the Republic’s Sardors (leaders) Council representative, which became the 9th year student of school 248 Malika Danieva.
“Of course, it is an honor to be the first among children of the same age. But it puts great responsibility to all my actions, as the leader of every department of school of sardors at RCO “Kamalak” must be an example for the peers,” shared Malia Danieva. “Every elected sardor proposes his ideas about the next year’s work. On my part it is creation of information press centers all over the country, including a radio wave, which will tell about our organization and life of youth. As is known, it is much easier to find out something about children organizations of the capital. But if we provide a well organized information exchange with the regions, it will allow children from remote parts of the country to declare about themselves and their activity.”
Upon the 8th Traditional RCO “Kamalak” Forum, all participants received certificates and presents.
SOFTLINE LAUNCHES PROMETRIC TESTING CENTER IN UZBEKISTAN
Softline Educational Center launched Prometric Testing Center in Uzbekistan, the press release of Softline in Uzbekistan said.
In the first half of 2007, Softline Educational Center signed a unique agreement with Prometric on rendering testing services in majority of its offices in the CIS. In May 2009, the Uzbek office of Softline joined the programme.
Prometric is the leading global provider of comprehensive testing and assessment services on products of such companies as Microsoft, Oracle and others.
The release said Softline Educational Center underwent inspection of Prometric and now it is ready to offer various products of the company.
UZBEKISTAN POCHTASI PRESENTS NEW POSTAL STAMPS
Uzbekistan Pochtasi open joint stock company presented special postal stamps dedicated to the International Child Protection Day, marked on June 1.
The stamps were developed based on works of children, who participated in the special competition "World as sees by Children". Over 1,014 works were presented to competition.
The series of stamps "World as sees by Children" consists of six stamps and it was issued in over 300,000 copies.