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On October 24, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power and Ministers from the Republic of Uzbekistan, Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan under the auspices of the C5+1 regional diplomatic platform.

Today in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Administrator Samantha Power chaired the C5+1 Regional Connectivity Ministerial with the governments of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. During the ministerial, Administrator Power announced an additional $14.3 million in regional programming demonstrating the deepening partnerships between the United States and Central Asian countries.

This is an inflection point for Central Asia – a moment of tremendous opportunity to substantiate the goals laid out last month by your leaders and President Biden at the UN General Assembly. At that meeting, which I had the privilege of attending with President Biden, the U.S. President reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to strengthen the sovereignty, resilience, and prosperity of all your nations. And many of your countries have taken important steps to do just that – enacting reforms to attract more investment, working to share energy and water resources with one another, and recognizing the value of working with civil society partners to, among other successes, eliminate child and forced labor and promote accountability of leaders to their people.

All told, I am announcing today a total of $14.3 million in new investments in the region.  And that is in addition to the nearly $19 million in investments I announced yesterday in health, economic growth, local governance, and education here in Uzbekistan specifically.  At this historic moment, at this inflection point, we are really looking forward to building on our work together – and to supporting the people of Central Asia in turning this new world of hope and possibility into concrete and lasting and sustainable progress.

Today's episode interview is a special and exclusive for UzReport TV, with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, Ms. Samantha Power.

Today, Administrator Samantha Power visited a school in Tashkent and announced a new initiative to help improve the quality of instruction, materials, and support that every child needs to succeed in school, with an initial-year investment of $4.5 million. 

I had a very lengthy and productive discussion with the President on the whole host of issues that USAID and the U.S. government is working with the Uzbeck people on. That ranges from a new announcement, that I'm making today in fact, about additional resources to combat TB, tuberculosis. We discussed USAID support for schools in Uzbekistan, and today I'm announcing additional resources to support the production of materials and the training of teachers in Uzbek schools.

Administrator Samantha Power arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan today to deepen the U.S. partnership with the people of Uzbekistan. During her visit, she will announce new investments, including an additional $14.2 million to strengthen collaboration in global health, governance, and economic growth. 

The Ending Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Central Asia program is based on a comprehensive multi-component approach to provide support to the National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs) of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in significantly scaling up the prevention, detection, and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).

So Ambassador, Ambassadors actually. Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Ambassador from Uzbekistan here when I get finished with my remarks you will be even more excited about David Hoffman coming to Uzbekistan. This is not a common individual, this is a very uncommon person, which you will hear about in a minute.