Upward Trend in Foreign Trade Between Uzbekistan and Austria

PeopleOther ♦ Published: November 18, 2019; 19:33 ♦ (Vindobona)

With 33 million inhabitants, Uzbekistan is the most populous country and Austria's second largest export destination in Central Asia.

H.E. Mr. Sherzod Asadov has been Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Austria since November 2018. / Picture: © www.bundespraesident.at / /Karlovits, Bauer und Heinschink / HBF

In an interview in the foreign trade magazine (Außenwirtschafts-Magazin) of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WKO), Rudolf Thaler, the Austrian Economic Delegate in Almaty, confirms that Uzbekistan is "The Rising Star" in Central Asia.

According to Thaler, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has only been in office for three years, "ignited a continuous firework of reforms.…