On April 5, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting via conference call on the construction of new housing and priorities of 2023 mortgage program.

Next meeting of the Council of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO) kicked off today in Tashkent.

At the plenary session on Thursday, the senators reviewed the Ratification of the agreement between the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on cooperation in the military field Bill (Tashkent, June 21, 2022)” and the ratification of the agreement between the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on military-technical cooperation Bill (Tashkent, June 21, 2022).

The new railway from China through Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will save seven days of transportation time, official of the Ministry of Transport of Kyrgyzstan, Nurmat Musabekov told Birinchi Radio on April 6.

Reacting to Uzbekistan’s upper house of Parliament passing legislation that criminalizes domestic violence, Heather McGill, Amnesty International’s Central Asia Researcher, said:

15-year-old girl was gang-raped by 11 or 12 men in Khorezm’s Yangiaryk district. The victim's aunt told Gazeta.uz on condition of anonymity.

At the Senate’s thirty-ninth plenary session, the senators reviewed the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, aimed at ensuring the inevitability of liability for corruption crimes".

Amendments to the legislation that will enhance the protection of the rights, freedoms and interests of women and children was passed At the Senate’s April 6 plenary session, the Senate’s press service said.

Today, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court reviewed the cassation protest of the Khorezm province prosecutor's office against the sentence of the former heads of the department of justice of the province, Aibek Masharipov and the Yangiaryk district department for emergency situations, Anvar Kuryazov, who were convicted of having sexual intercourse with pupils of an Urgench orphanage.

The Government, by its April 3 Resolution, amended the Traffic Rules (TR) regarding the maximum speed limit in cities. The new wording of the second paragraph of clause 78 of the TR now reads:

The Spanish company MAXAM, which owns 49 percent of MAXAM Chirchiq plant, is demanding compensation from the Uzbek government for breach of contract. Uzkimyosanoat and the State Assets Management Agency said that MAXAM did not perform its obligations to attract investments and is currently refusing to perform them.

Information surfaced on social networks that a man in Chirakchi district of Kashkadarya province raped a 13-year-old orphan, whom he took into his family from an orphanage, after which the girl became pregnant.

On April 14, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in Samarkand.

Group of Tashkent girls launched a social project called Ayol Buyum Emas (Woman is not an Object) to counter violence against women. As part of the project, they have published photos of themselves holding banners with anti-violence slogans and red stains resembling blood.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on April 4 signed a decree on additional measures to provide the public with high-quality consumer goods, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Indonesian Police's anti-terror squad Densus 88 nabbed four Uzbekistan nationals for allegedly spreading terror propaganda on social media platforms.

Turkish airline AnadoluJet has launched Ankara to Tashkent flight. The first of once-a-week flights is scheduled for April 17, 2023 on Boeing 737-800.

Uzbekistan has virtually completed negotiations on the country's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with three states. This was announced at a press conference on March 31 by Deputy Head of the Department for Cooperation with the WTO of the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade Amirbek Mukhamedov.

Three-year-old boy died in Urgut district of Samarkand province, falling into a ditch in front of the house, the Emergencies branch of the province reported.

Heavy rains are expected in places in Tashkent, Samarkand, Jizzakh, Syrdarya, Kashkadarya provinces, provinces of the Ferghana Valley and mountainous areas on April 5-7, with hails possible in some areas, Uzhydromet warned.