Uzbek invites Indian companies to global forum

NEW DELHI: As many as 80 Indian companies from various sectors including textiles, pharmaceuticals, finance, chemicals and fertilisers have been invited by the Uzbekistan government at an International Investment Forum on November 5-6 in capital Tashkent to implement the vision of stronger Indo-Uzbek economic partnership as well as India’s growing ties with Central Asia following PM Narendra Modi’s visit to all five countries in the region last July.

Uzbekistan has established three Free Economic Zones where Indian companies will be given first preference, an Uzbek government official told ET. Tashkent is pushing to implement vision enunciated during PM Modi’s visit to the country which was first stop in his tour to Central Asia and Russia.