Uzbekistan's government has placed 5-year government securities on the Republican Currency Exchange (UzRVB) to diversify financial instruments and attract new participants to the financial market, the Finance Ministry said.

Uzbekistan will offer 50 mining and prospective fields to foreign and domestic investors this year “on the basis of open and transparent market mechanisms” in an effort to identify the country’s mineral reserves and raise mining production.

Maintenance works are planned to be held on a major Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan in August-September, the country’s Energy Ministry spokesman told The Tribune.