As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Department of Commerces Office of Russia, Europe, and Eurasia (ORUE),CLDP participated in a video meeting with Javlon Vakhabov, the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States on June 25, 2020, to discuss Uzbekistans Strategy for the Development of...

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, CLDP met via videoconference with Atabek Nazirov, Director of Uzbekistan’s Capital Markets Development Agency; Amir Sultanov, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Uzbek Embassy in Washington D.C., and Rick Stoddard, Senior Central Asia Advisor in the Office of the Coordinator...

On June 25,  CLDP held the first of a series of webinars for CLDP’s Central Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) working group which focuses on how to promote businesswomen in the Central Asia focusing on a variety of commercial law topics.  In this webinar, experts from the Women’s World Banking...

CLDP Attorney Michael Cofield participated in the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement annual meetings on October 21-22, 2019in Washington, DC.On Monday, October 21, CLDP briefed theTIFA-level Working Groups on the work and results of the CLDP-facilitated regional Expert Level...

On September 17-19, 2019, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, CLDP brought together government officials from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan with advisors from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), USPTO, and ITA for the first meeting of the Central Asia Expert Level...

On September 10-11, 2019, in Tbilisi, Georgia, CLDP led a sub-regional workshop highlighting best practices in developing laws to restrict lead in paint. The workshop brought together officials from the CLDP-facilitated Central Asia Expert Level Working Group on Standards with their counterparts in...

On July 25-26, 2019 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and on July 28-29, 2019 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, CLDP facilitated trainings on trademark examinations and registrations, conducted by advisors from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Participants included officials from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the...

CLDP assistes UzStandart, the Uzbek Agency for Standardization, Metrology, and Certification, inconcluding a Memorandum of Understanding withASTM International.

On February 19, CLDP participated in a networking luncheon, hosted by the Washington Intergovernmental Professional Group, to hear from Uzbekistans ambassador to the U.S. about Uzbekistans commitment to reform and openness.