The multidisciplinary statistical mission of the International Monetary Fund for Uzbekistan started its work

On March 1 of this year, the Chairman of the State Committee on Statistics Begalov Bakhodir Abdusalomovich met by videoconference with the head of the multidisciplinary statistical mission of the International Monetary Fund Artak Harutyunyan.

In accordance with the agenda, the goals and objectives of the mission were discussed, issues of the transition of the Republic of Uzbekistan from the "expanded General Data Dissemination System" to the "Special Data Dissemination Standard" of the International Monetary Fund, improvement of monetary and financial statistics, statistics of the external sector, the system of national accounts and transition to SNA 2008.

The meeting was also attended by the leadership of the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan and representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan, experts from the IMF mission and senior officials of the relevant ministries of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The participants of the meeting noted the implemented activities and the achieved results of mutual cooperation in this direction. Experts from the International Monetary Fund expressed their expectations and presented recommendations on macroeconomic and financial statistics, reviewed the status of implementation of the recommendations of the previous TA mission on the transition to the “Special Data Dissemination Standard”.

For information: The Republic of Uzbekistan joined the "expanded Common Data Dissemination System" of the International Monetary Fund in May 2018. In 2019, the "Roadmap" of the government for the transition of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the "Special Data Dissemination Standard" was approved. This task is also reflected in the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 3, 2020 "On measures to further improve and develop the national system of statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan."