President of the Asian Development Bank Tadao Chino, who is on a visit in Uzbekistan, visited Samarkand on 3 November.

Vice Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Rustam Azimov accompanied Tadao Chino during the trip, which was made on the Tashkent-Samarkand speed train. The route was opened as a result of the joint project implemented by Uzbekistan and the ADB.

In Samarkand, Tadao Chino familiarised himself with the Imam al-Bukhari memorial complex and the city?s historical monuments, as well as visited the academic lyceum of the Samarkand State University and Samarkand Olympic reserve college.