Today Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov met with Secretary General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) Naif al-Khajraf.

Remote customs control system has been launched at the departures terminal of Tashkent International Airport, the Uzbekistan Airports reported.

The President approved amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The amendments have established a fine for officials in the amount of 3 to 5 basic settlement units (BSU=300,000 soums) for violating the Openness Of The Activities Of Public Authorities And Governance Law.

Senators at the twenty-ninth plenary session considered Public Debt Bill, the Senate said. Reportedly, the Bill provides for the priority of the public debt and the cost of servicing it, the ceiling of the public debt, the definition of the powers of state authorities and the public debt management department.

Over 72,000 stateless persons have been granted Uzbek citizenship over the past two years. This was announced at a press briefing with the participation of the head and officials of the Migration and Citizenship Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

ArMI-2022 international army games will be held from August 13 to 27 this year in 12 countries of the world. This time, the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan will participate in 20 contests, with 275 teams from 37 countries involved in 34 contests.

The first tripartite meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Economy and Transport of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey took place in Tashkent.

Three men who had sexual intercourses with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Tashkent have been released on parole. The incident occurred on April 27, 2021, when a physical education teacher at a Tashkent school “lured his student into a previously rented apartment to where he also invited two friends.”

Uzbeks will have 4 days off in a row on the occasion of the Independence Day holiday. According to the relevant presidential decree, regardless of working days (5 or 6 day-a-week), Uzbekistan residents will have 4 days off from September 1 to 4:

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan share irrigation water with southern Kazakhstan. In the Turkestan province of Kazakhstan, the problem of irrigation water was solved.

DB Engineering and Consulting (DB E&C) has signed a contract to oversee the electrification of Uzbekistan’s 452-kilometre-long Bukhara-Urgench-Khiva railway line.

On August 2, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the High Commissioner for National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Kairat Abdrakhmanov, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan Airways announced the increase in the frequency of Tashkent to London flights, the company said. Reportedly, until now, flights to London had been operated twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays.

In Akkurgan district of Tashkent province, a 16-year-old teenager was detained on suspicion of killing his mother, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

Today, Minister of Transport Ilkhom Makhkamov at the trilateral meeting of ministers of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey initiated the creation of a new multimodal corridor Turkey-Caucasus-Central Asia-South Asia through Afghanistan.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Turkish government delegation led by the Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

The State Statistics Committee issued data on the volume of certain types of food items imported from Turkey. Reportedly, chicken meat occupies the leading position in the volume of some types of food products imported from Turkey in January-June 2022 - 3.6 thousand tons.

Interim Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov hosted his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu who landed in Tashkent to attend the first meeting of the Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan-Turkey dialogue format.

The State Assets Management Agency announced it sold the Chorvok Oromgokhi (Pyramids) resort, which is located on the left bank of the Charvak reservoir in Tashkent province.

Uzbekistan received from the Afghan energy company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) a payment for the supplied electricity in 2021, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said.