Monthly Meeting with Eldor Tulyakov

On March 3, American Chamber of Commerce in Uzbekistan was pleased to organize Monthly Meeting hosted by Eldor Tulyakov, Executive Director of the Development Strategy Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who presented recently adopted “Development Strategy of New Uzbekistan for 2022-2026”.

The event began with welcoming remarks by Vera Bell, Vice President of AmCham Uzbekistan, who introduced the speaker of the event and noted the importance of knowing the direction of development of Uzbekistan for both private sector representatives and diplomatic corps.

The main part was featured by Eldor Tulyakov, who started with an overview of the strategy. He mentioned that the Strategy aims to achieve 100 goals within the 7 priority areas:

1. To build a people’s state by elevating human dignity and the furtherance of civil society, including the transfer of 20% of public services to the private sector, Increasing the public funds’ funding sevenfold under the Kengashes of People’s’ Deputies, which support non-governmental, non-profit organizations
2. To establish the principles of justice and the rule of law as the most fundamental and critical conditions for development which will be focused on insurance of transparency in judiciary
3. To develop robust national economy that ensures rapid growth
4. To pursue just and fair public policies and human capital development by focusing on improving the quality of education in schools, public healthcare system and strengthening social protection, supporting women and their active participation in society
5. To ensure the elevation of spiritual values by popularization of reading, supporting national cultural centers, developing local arts, history, culture and cinematography
6. To approach global challenges through the lens of our national interests by protecting the ecological and environmental integrity, combating extremism and terrorism, instill zero-tolerance attitude to corruption in society.
7. To strengthen the security and defense potential of our country, pursuing an open, pragmatic, and active foreign policy by Improve the legal framework for economic, cultural, and humanitarian cooperation with South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and with solid economies in the CIS and the Americas

At the end of the presentation, Tatyana Bystrushkina, Executive Director of AmCham Uzbekistan, held Q&A session, where participants got a chance to discuss important issues regarding the strategy and the ways of implementing them directly with the speaker.

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