New direct flight from Budapest to this Asian capital from today!

Hungary and Uzbekistan are to be connected by a direct flight from Sunday; there will be two weekly flights between Budapest and Tashkent from September, three from January and four from 2025, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Saturday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Uzbek Minister of Industry and Trade Laziz Kudratov in Budapest, Szijjártó said the first flight of Qanot Sharq Airlines will arrive to Budapest on Sunday.

Guest workers will come to Hungary from Uzbekistan with the new flight?

In view of the new flights, the number of consuls has been increased at the Hungarian embassy in Tashkent and the issuance of visas has been accelerated so it is now easier for Uzbeks to travel to Hungary, and the same is true the other way round, Szijjártó said, according to a foreign ministry statement. He noted that, like Hungary, Uzbekistan has plans to build a new nuclear power plant.

Some comment writers said the new flights serve only the purpose of carrying guest workers to Hungary. We wrote that the Hungarian government expects hundreds of thousands of guest workers from Asia to boost the economy HERE.

“An agreement has been reached that if progress is made in the nuclear project in Uzbekistan, then Hungarian dry-cooling technology will be used, which will mean a Russian-Uzbek-Hungarian cooperation worth several hundred million euros,” he said. Szijjártó expressed his hope that the new flight will give impetus to bilateral economic relations, and welcomed the fact that Hungarian pharmaceutical companies had already established a foothold in Uzbekistan. Richter is in talks on the local production of two of its products, while Meditop has opened its office and is preparing investments in the country, he said.