SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan), November 3 – Novosti. Commercial banks of Uzbekistan currently see risks in servicing Mir cards, the issue of resuming their acceptance is not yet on the agenda, Chairman of the Board of the country’s Central Bank Mamarizo Nurmuratov told reporters on Thursday.
The II International Economic Forum opened in Samarkand on Thursday.
“So far, there is no talk of resuming,” Nurmuratov said on the sidelines of the forum, answering a question about the possible timing of the resumption of the work of the Mir system in Uzbekistan.
The head of the Central Bank noted that commercial banks of Uzbekistan operate in that system, and “now there are big risks for them.”
Since September 23, the unified republican processing center Uzcard has suspended accepting cards of the Russian payment system “Mir” in Uzbekistan, including co-badged ones abroad, for technical reasons. At the same time, Uzcard-Mir co-badged cards operate as usual in the country.
After the US Treasury announced its readiness to impose sanctions for working with the Mir payment system, problems with the use of Russian cards arose in many countries, including Turkey , Vietnam , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan .
