Lahore, Aug. 22 -- Uzbekistan is on the list of countries that do not meet the minimum fiscal transparency requirements of the US Department of State. In addition to Uzbekistan, 67 other countries are included in the annual State Department report on transparency. There are Azerbaijan, China, Iraq, Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia among them. The document analyzes the work of 140 governments to which the United States provided financial assistance from January 1 to December 31, 2018.

The report said that Uzbekistan has made progress in promulgating its budget, but it still does not contain detailed information on planned expenses and revenues. In addition, data on profits from natural resources and information on off-budgetary state accounts...