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Uzbekistan-Belarus bilateral trade nearly tripled over five years, approaching US$1 billion, with around 360 joint ventures.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because the overland freight route linking China to Europe increasingly runs through Kazakhstan and the Caspian instead of Russia, reshaping who controls east-west trade and giving Beijing and Ankara leverage Moscow used to hold—while unresolved Fergana Valley water and border disputes could still ignite fighting between neighbors.
Part of the monitored dynamic Central Asia Realignment · VUCA INDEX 52/100
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news.az — Why Uzbekistan elevated relations with Belarus after Kazakhstan and Georgia
"Bilateral trade has nearly tripled over the past five years, approaching the US$1 billion mark. The number of joint ventures has risen to around 360"
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from news.az · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 10.
Extracted JUL 10; approved JUL 10 at 0.55.
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- Around 230 Uzbek companies and governors of Tashkent, Fergana and Andijan regions accompanied Mirziyoyev to Belarus.
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