Overpass connecting Babur street and Tashkent International Airport was tested to exceed the permissible load. During the test, 4 tanks (40 tons each) were loaded into 4 trailers (35 tons each), thereby bringing the total load on the overpass to 300 tons.

The MoM, signed at a recent meeting of the Ministers of transport of the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization, is dedicated to the creation of Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey multimodal corridor, the press service of the Ministry of transport said.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan plunged by an estimated 95 per cent following a drug ban imposed by the de facto authorities in April 2022, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).  

Uzbekistan's Gazli and Khojaabad underground gas storage facilities (UGS) are 98% full as of November 6, the chief of the press service of Uztransgaz Shakhnoza Ravshanova said.

The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, will leave on Tuesday November 7 for a double mission in South Korea and Uzbekistan, with the aim of strengthening Italy's projection in Asia and cooperation with two partners of great strategic importance in the current international panorama, Agenza Nova said.

From July 1, 2024, as an experiment, the drinking water supply and sewer systems in the cities of Kagan, Shirin, Yangier, Bekobod and Yangiyul will be handed over to the private sector on the basis of public-private partnership. The relevant decree was signed by the president on October 24.

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will travel to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India on November 4-11. Assistant Secretary Lu will lead a U.S. delegation to Central Asia to build on the success of the inaugural C5+1 Presidential Summit on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September and the C5+1 Regional Connectivity Ministerial in October. Assistant Secretary Lu will then travel to India to prepare for and support the U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.

22.49 thousand electric vehicles were imported into Uzbekistan in ten months of 2023, the Customs Committee said in a report on Monday.

The French Orano will invest up to 500 million dollars in uranium mining and processing in Uzbekistan, the Minister of Mining and Geology Bobur Islamov announced at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum.

On Monday and Tuesday, the territory of Uzbekistan will be under the influence of a warm and slightly humid air mass, Uzhydromet reported.

Tashkent will host the sixteenth summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on November 8-9, to be chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan imported nearly 300 million cubic meters of gas from Russia, the Energy Minister Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov announced at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Samarkand.

From November 8 to 10, traffic will be limited on a number of central streets of Tashkent in connection with the 16th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the capital's mayor’s office reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his remarks at the summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Astana on November 3, proposed to create a single alphabet for all Turkic countries, Tengrinews.kz at reported.

In 2024, it is planned to increase the supply of oil products from Russia to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan to 1 million tons, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said. This is more than three times the volume of oil that was planned to be imported in 2023 (300 thousand tons).

The Tashkent city appellate court completed the retrial of the case of two former officials previously convicted of having sex with inmates of an orphanage in Urgench, and issued a ruling, the Supreme Court said.

The perspectives of gas cooperation between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan is 15 years, and a long-term cooperation agreement could be entered into in mid-2024, the CEO of Gazprom, Alexey Miller said this at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.

Chief of Navoi Free Economic Zone (FEZ) Habib Abdullaev and, CEO of FlySeeAgro of Russia Vasiliy Ptitsin, and signed a memorandum on the implementation of a 5-year investment program on "Establishing the production unit of unmanned aviation systems in Uzbekistan, FlySeeAgro said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking on November 3 at the Meeting of the Turkic Summit, quoted one of the founders of the ancient Turkic state, Bilga Hakan: “Get reborn, my Turkic people, know yourself in order to rise again!”

Uzbekistan’s human rights record will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Wednesday, 8 November 2023, in a meeting in Geneva that will be webcast live.