Uzbekistan lies in the heart of Central Asia and at a major intersection of the Silk Road. The potential markets of Central Asia (60 million people) and the Silk Road region (142 million people) lie unexploited. There are a growing number of formal cooperation programmes to renew trade, transit, investment and tourism in Central Asia and along the ancient Silk Road. Regional agreements are being signed to lower transport barriers and the costs of moving goods and people across borders. Uzbekistan takes part in a number of regional multilateral agreements such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisdoc/0707UZ_Afghan_CaseStudy.htm
BISNIS (Business Information Service for Newly Independent
States) of US Government. Case Study – Afghanistan Reconstruction Effort:
Uzbekistan’s Views and Activities
http://www.cagateway.org/en/topics/23/85/
Topics related to Eurasian Economic Community. Topics
related to advantages of doing business in EurAsEC countries.
Languages: English
http://www.evrazes.com/
The official website of the EurAsEC. The benefits of
participation in the EurAsEC for real business of the 6 countries consist
primarily in that business activity is evolving within a single economic space
being maintained thanks to the unification of the national legislations of the
countries of the Community and the creation of equal conditions for business
entities operating within this space. No customs duties are levied on goods and
services produced within the EurAsEC as they move across the internal borders
of the Community.
Languages: Russian, English,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States
Brief information about Commonwealth of Independent States. Free
trade zone.
http://www.cisstat.com/eng/cis.htm
Statistical data about CIS countries.
http://www.sectsco.org/html/00026.html
Official website of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an intergovernmental mutual-security
organization which was founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A Framework Agreement to
enhance economic cooperation was signed by the SCO member states on 23
September 2003. At the same meeting the PRC's Premier, Wen Jiabao, proposed a
long-term objective to establish a free trade area in the SCO, while other more
immediate measures would be taken to improve the flow of goods in the region. A
follow up plan with 100 specific actions was signed one year later, on
September 23, 2004.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/trade/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1140364
Can Afghanistan Lay a New Silk Road? By M. Ashraf Haidari.
The people of Afghanistan are inching ever closer to reclaiming the title
"Garden of Central Asia" for their country Afghanistan’s economy has
been called a “virgin market.” Years of conflict left the country virtually
untouched by foreign...
Contributed by M. Ashraf Haidari on 25 Mar , 2008
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