Today is the start of a three-day exhibition in Uzbekistan pulling together, according to the Uzbekistan-based site KUN.uz, more than 700 manufacturing companies and business delegations from Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan—also joined by Hungary, Armenia and France. Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov addressed the plenary session—"Central Asia: Space for a Technological Breakthrough"—of the Innoprom—Central Asia International Industrial Exhibition, providing a strategic overview. He declared, according to RT:
“What is happening today in the global economy and in the world gives us a hint about how we need to rebuild our logistics, industrial cooperation, in what directions we can develop our economies. This [is] de-dollarization, and now we have added de-euroization, that is, the transition to our own currencies in order to be as independent as possible in terms of mutual settlements.”