TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, June 17. Belarus offers
Uzbekistan joint investments in building medical-rehabilitation
facilities, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin said at the
openingof the 5th Tashkent International Investment Forum (TIIF
2026), Trend's
special correspondent reports.
"Belarus is encouraging its partners not to catch up with
leaders in traditional fields, but to immediately engage in
projects at the highest technological levels. Residents of the
Belarusian High-Tech Park are creating solutions based on
artificial intelligence and computer vision that are already being
used in industry: product lifecycle management, autonomous
logistics, and operations. The unification of the financial,
industrial, and digital potential of Uzbekistan and Belarus is a
ready-made formula for the technological sovereignty of our
countries," he said.
Turchin noted that economic sustainability is unthinkable
without the integration of material production and the modern
service sector.
"Investing in people, their health, and quality of life is a
global trend. Both Belarus and Uzbekistan share a common geographic
feature: our countries lack direct access to the sea. But we have
turned this limitation into a strategic advantage by focusing on
developing unique alternative formats. Uzbekistan, for example, is
making a colossal leap forward in creating all-season mountain
resorts. Belarus is focusing on developing health and wellness and
medical tourism. Demand for these services from foreign citizens
already far exceeds our market capacity," said the Belarusian prime
minister.
Turchin emphasized that, thanks to its unique natural resources
and highly qualified specialists, Belarus is successfully
implementing comprehensive and effective health and rehabilitation
programs.
"Last year, approximately 250,000 foreign citizens visited our
health resorts, a more than threefold increase over the past five
years. The most in-demand areas are transplantology, dentistry,
cardiac surgery, and neurosurgery. A new and promising area is
nuclear medicine, diagnostics, and treatment using radioactive
isotopes. We are offering our Uzbek partners joint investment
projects to create year-round, premium-class treatment and
rehabilitation complexes in Belarus. These are not just local
projects, but a larger, increasingly profitable export of medical
and tourism services. Mutual interest in tourism between Belarus
and Uzbekistan continues to grow," he said.
Furthermore, the prime minister noted that Tashkent has become a
key center of attraction for capital and business activity in
Central Asia.
"For Belarus, Uzbekistan is a strategic, completely
understandable, and reliable partner. Mutual trade in goods between
our countries continues to grow steadily. Over the past 10 years,
the volume of mutual trade in goods has increased more than
13-fold. The results of last year and the first quarter of this
year confirm this momentum. Similar trends are underway in
services, with growth over the past decade more than 30-fold.
Uzbekistan ranks third among CIS countries in terms of mutual trade
in services with Belarus.
The presidents of Belarus and Uzbekistan have set a very
achievable goal of reaching $2 billion in mutual trade within a few
years. To maintain this level in the long term, a qualitative
transition to mutual investment in real assets is needed. There is
a good foundation in this area. For example, in terms of
accumulated Belarusian investments, Uzbekistan ranks second among
CIS countries," he added.
The 5th anniversary Tashkent International Investment Forum
kicked off in the capital of Uzbekistan, becoming a crucial
platform for dialogue between investors, government agencies, and
international financial institutions on June 16.
The anniversary forum is designed not only to consolidate
previous achievements but also to expand the geography of its
participants, deepen sector-specific specialization, and enhance
the practical focus of its events. Today, TIIF serves as an
indicator of confidence from international capital and a platform
for integrating Uzbekistan into global value chains.
