Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, Dec 20 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbekistan sent its first container cargo train to Europe, via a new railway route called Middle Corridor, said a Uzbek railway company, yesterday.

The cargo train, loaded with copper concentrate and “consisted of 91 standard 20-foot containers, on 46 railway platforms” left the country on Dec 16, for the Bulgarian Burgas region, said the Uzbekistan Railway company.

TASHKENT, Dec 16 (NNN-XINHUA) – Energy companies from the United Arab Emirates, Türkiye and France, have won tenders to build and operate three solar power plants, with a total capacity of 500 megawatts (MW) in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Energy Ministry said, yesterday.

According to the results of the tender, Abu Dhabi-based Masdar was awarded to construct a 250 MW project in Bukhara region, with a proposal of 3,044 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour of produced electricity, the ministry said.

TASHKENT, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident involving a bus and a truck in the Andijan region in eastern Uzbekistan Saturday.

The collision took place between the two vehicles on the Tashkent-Andijan highway in the Andijan region at approximately 8:10 a.m. local time (0310 GMT), said the Uzbek Health Ministry and the regional traffic police.

In a heavy fog in the morning, the bus driver drove into the oncoming lane and collided with the truck, the police said.

Beijing, Sep 21 (PTI) Trade connectivity among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries with transit rights should not be a problem unless “protectionism comes in the way” and the issue could be discussed at the next summit of the eight-member grouping in India, Deputy Secretary General of the bloc Sohail Khan has said.

BISHKEK, September 19. /TASS/: Chiefs of the Kyrgyz and Tajik National Security Committees have signed a protocol on the stabilization of the situation on the border and the establishment of peace between the two countries, Turmush agency said on Monday, citing chief of Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Committee Kamchybek Tashiyev.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sept 16 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied Russia had anything to do with Europe's energy crisis, saying that if the European Union wanted more gas it should lift sanctions preventing the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Speaking to reporters after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan, Putin blamed what he called "the green agenda" for the energy crisis, and insisted that Russia would fulfil its energy obligations.

Samarkand, Sep 16 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to create trusted and resilient supply chains to offset the disruptions caused by the Ukraine crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic and said the members of the grouping should give each other full transit rights to expand connectivity.

Samarkand, Sep 16 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday attended the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in this Silk Road city but there was no sign of any thaw in bilateral ties that came under severe strain following the deadly clash in Galwan Valley around 27 months back.

It is for the first time that Modi and Xi came face-to-face since the start of the border standoff in eastern Ladakh.

16 Sep 2022; MEMO: Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced on Friday plans for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to expand, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Speaking at a meeting of the SCO leaders in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Mirziyoyev said a Memorandum about Iran's accession to the Organisation is set to be signed.

16 Sep 2022; MEMO: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday that Tehran is boosting cooperation with Russia to neutralise the limitations of sanctions imposed by the United States.

This came during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Uzbekistan.