The Asian Development Bank’s outstanding loans to Karakalpakstan exceed $760 million — a fifth of its entire Uzbekistan portfolio — financing water treatment plants, road reconstruction and a 200-megawatt wind farm in one of Central Asia’s most climate-stressed regions.
Senate Chairwoman Tanzila Norboyeva told a plenary session that hokims are wrongly seeking council approval for money already spent, and demanded councils authorise budgets in advance — just as parliament does at the national level.
