Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Negotiations on Uzbekistan’s accession to the Eurasian Development Bank are continueing. This was reported by Sputnik with reference to the words of the head of the EDB department Vladimir Yakunin.

He noted that the bank is ready to allocate up to US$450 million for the first joint project with Uzbekistan.

The EDB is an international financial organization whose members are Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.