Unloved and looking for a lift

The hope is that the EBRD’s annual meeting in Tashkent in May will give a much-needed lift to Uzbekistan’s ailing economy. But relations with multilaterals have never been worse, and the country’s human rights record raises questions about why the meeting is taking place there at all.

THE TWO-DAY annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is taking place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in May – the first time the bank has met in central Asia. From May 4-5, some 2000 delegates will travel to the Hotel-Intercontinental in downtown Tashkent, bringing the eyes and – so the EBRD hopes – the wallets of the global financial community to focus on this central country of the CIS region.

Uzbekistan could certainly do with a lift.

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