PPP Law Initial Focus Of New Uzbek Agency

With Uzbekistan announcing that it is establishing a coordinating agency to facilitate planning and implementation of PPPs, the new agency's focus in its first year will likely be on helping to draft and shepherd passage of a PPP law through the country's Supreme Assembly, according to a legal adviser in Tashkent.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan's president, signed last week (October 2018) a resolution forming the authority dubbed the Agency for Development of Public-Private Partnerships. Under the Ministry of Finance, it will facilitate activities among different ministries to bolster the economy's priority areas, including the "implementation of transport-communications and social infrastructure projects", according to the country's development strategy (2017-2022) signed last year by the president.

The five-year strategy, spearheaded by the Development Strategy Center, is also focused on the "further development of road transport...

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