Dry weather is expected across most of Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, Uzhydromet said. Only in the Bukhara, Navoi, Samarkand, Kashkadarya provinces, with movement of moist and warm air from Turkmenistan, light rain will pass in places, light precipitation (rain, snow) is possible in the north and the desert zone.

Today, the Central Election Commission considered the request to resign of the Uzlidep MP Rasul Kusherbayev. Only one of the members of the commission asked about the reasons for resigning the mandate, to which the chief of the CEC, Zainiddin Nizamkhojaev, said that the reasons were not specified in the request.

Termez International Airport was opened after reconstruction and received the first flight on December 26, the Uzbekistan Airports reported on Monday.

From January 1, 2023, in Uzbekistan, the number of standalone executive authorities subordinate to the government will be reduced from 61 to 28.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a working visit to St. Petersburg on December 26-27 to attend the informal meeting of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the presidential press service said.

The OPEC International Development Fund and the International Islamic Trade and Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide Uzbekistan $100 million for the purchase of basic agricultural products.

In 2023, Kazakhstan will deliver 300,000 tons of oil and oil products to Uzbekistan. Could this lead to lower gas prices? The Ministry of Energy reported that a number of agreements were reached between the energy ministries and companies of the two countries within the framework of the visit of the President of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan.

Yamal, as part of the winter flight program, launched once-a-week regular flights from St. Petersburg to the Uzbek cities of Namangan and Urgench.

The fourth round of hybrid political consultations between Uzbekistan and the United Kingdom took place in Tashkent. The parties discussed the Uzbekistan-UK ties, cooperation within multilateral structures and exchange views on expanding the political-diplomatic dialogue, filling the general agenda with practical content.

On December 22, the private Uzbek airline Panorama Airways made its first commercial flight on the Tashkent to Urgench route. The Airbus A320 aircraft with 144 passengers on board took off for the destination airport at 21:50 local time.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Japan of undermining the long-standing economic ties between Central Asia countries and Russia.

Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev launched joint projects between the two countries, the press service of the Kazakh leader reported.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Sternik said that "even a hint" from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan to curtail relations with Russia would come at a cost to them.

A copy of the letter from the director of the Samarkand Provincial Children's Multidisciplinary Medical Center M. Azizov to the head of the Provinceal Health Department Davronbek Zhumaniyozov surfaced on social networks, which refers to the complications and death of patients who took Doc-1 Max tablets and syrup.

Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev signed historic documents - the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty on the Demarcation of the Uzbek-Kazakh State Border. They also oversaw the signing of bilateral documents, the Presidential press service said.

Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev today held head-to-head and between-delegations talks on December 22, the Uzbek presidency press service said.

Uzbekistan sent 9 trucks with humanitarian aid to the Afghan people on December 22. According to the Foreign Ministry, the humanitarian aid was sent to the city of Hairatan in Afghanistan via Termez. Officials did not disclose what the humanitarian aid included.

1,000 soum-coin will be put into circulation as of December 26, the Central Bank said. The coin is produced in a two-tone combination: a yellow inner ring made of copper and brass, a silver outer ring with nickel plating.

In Tashkent, a 60-year-old blogger, owner of Telegram channel and a YouTube channel with 5660 subscribers Shakhida Salomova was arrested.

Today, the president of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev landed in Uzbekistan on a state visit, the press service of the Uzbek president said.