Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have updated the Roadmap for the implementation of investment agreements and trade contracts. The document provides for the creation of a cluster for deep processing of Kazakh grain up to 1 million tons and the implementation of a project for refining vegetable oil on the territory of the International Center for Industrial Cooperation (ICPC) "Central Asia" being created. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The updated Roadmap was agreed on March 2 in Shymkent by Deputy Prime Ministers of the two countries Serik Zhumangarin and Jamshid Khodjaev.
The investment pool was also replenished with three projects designed to revive and give impetus to the development of the textile industry in the territory of Shymkent and Turkestan region. We are talking about the launch of idle textile factories in Shymkent with a capacity of 18 thousand tons of cotton fiber per year, the creation of a textile complex with a capacity of 5.5 thousand tons of cotton fiber per year and a joint venture to organize a textile cluster in the Turkestan region with a phased launch until 2026.
The parties also agreed to work out the opening of branches of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers on the basis of the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University and the M.Auezov South Kazakhstan University in Chirchik.
In addition, the vice premiers of the two countries signed a protocol that defines the construction site of the ICPC "Central Asia". The center will be located in the area of international (multilateral) checkpoints "Atameken" (RK) – "Gulistan" (RU). Now the parties will work out the allocation and reservation of land plots in the amount of 50 hectares from each for the construction of the MCPC.
The Kazakh and Uzbek trade departments, as curators of the project, agreed within a month to coordinate the issues of extending the "green" corridor for the movement of goods and cargo produced on the territory of the ICPC, as well as to determine the benefits and preferences operating on the territory of the ICPC on a parity basis.