“On Measures to Create a Modern Cotton-Textile Cluster in the Syrdarya Region” 6 . As international
practice shows, the development of a cluster as a new form of economic management, economic
interaction and relations allows achieving a certain socio-economic effect. It contributes to the growth
of the level of production, innovation opportunities, economic sustainability, social guarantees for the
population and increases the competitiveness of the real sector of the economy to stimulate new
organizations and firms. The renewed internal and external progressive policy of Uzbekistan has rallied
the state and society to achieve a common goal - to make people's lives better, worthier, to ensure
peace and prosperity in the country. The internal transformation, undoubtedly, reflected in the actions
of the state in the foreign policy arena, riveting the attention of the wide world community. Assessing
the role of the country in the international arena, foreign observers write that Uzbekistan started the
policy of open doors and has great potential in this area.
Foreign specialists and media are most impressed
The influential American analytical
with the new economic policy of the Uzbek leadership,
magazine The National Interest also published
material on reforms in Uzbekistan. It highlights
aimed at further strengthening macroeconomic stability
the importance of the decisions "to weaken
and maintaining high economic growth rates, enhancing
currency control and the transformation of the
its competitiveness, modernizing and intensively
Uzbek sum into a fully convertible currency". In
2017 there was a surge in foreign trade of the
developing agriculture, continuing institutional and
republic with neighboring countries, numerous
structural reforms to reduce the state’s presence in the
transactions between Uzbek businessmen and
economy, further strengthening the protection of the rights
foreign companies worth billions of dollars
and the priority role of private property, stimulating the
were concluded.
development of small business and private enterprise.
Experts say that the reforms will advance Uzbekistan
to create its new image, and in this context, they urge the world community to pay attention to the
breakthrough development observed today in the country. In this regard, they believe: if Uzbekistan
succeeds in reforming statehood, the republic can become a “laboratory” of reforms 7 , and its best
practices will be studied and applied by other developing countries.
According to experts, the intensification of Uzbekistan’s policy in the international arena, some
“external players want to see Tashkent as a moderator of their dialogue with Central Asia 8 . It is noted
that official Tashkent proceeds exclusively from its own national interests. “Remains on its own. Neither
pro-American, nor pro-Turkish, nor pro-Russian - only and exclusively pro-Uzbek”. It is alleged that “in
this process, Tashkent is an independent entity that takes into account the interests of all external
actors, but focuses primarily on the interests of Uzbekistan”.
Thus, a number of large-scale projects have been implemented in Uzbekistan over a short period
of time, dozens of programs have been initiated, and favorable conditions are being created for foreign
investors. In this context, we can say that the past year and a half have become a kind of “awakening
of consciousness” for many Uzbeks, a time of strategic changes for the country as a whole.
6 Resolution
of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 15.09.2017, №PP-3279 “On measures to create a modern cotton-textile cluster in
the Syrdarya region http: //lex.uz/docs/3352681
7 The same source.
8 I.Pankratenko. Who are you with, Tashkent? / www.ng.ru/dipkurer/2018-05-28/11_7233_tashkent.html
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