Kazakhstan plans to participate in construction of Kambarata-1

17:47, 26 мая 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Jazgul MASALIEVA

The President of Kazakhstan offered Bishkek to draw up a list of promising investment projects. Press service of Akorda reports.

«Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called to intensify investment cooperation, proposing to study mutually beneficial proposals. One of them may be the joint construction of hydropower facilities in Kyrgyzstan, in particular Kambarata HPP-1,» the statement says.

In 2017, during his first visit to Bishkek, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev expressed Tashkent’s willingness to participate in the construction of Kambarata-1. Last year in Tashkent, the parties again raised the issue of joint operation of hydropower facilities.

Earlier, the Energy Minister Doskul Bekmurzaev said that negotiations over the construction of Kambarata-1 were underway not only with Uzbekistan, but also with Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan and China.