Friday, 20, September, 2024

National

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.

The Government of Japan, as part of its program of assistance to economic and social development, on August 1 handed over to Uzbekistan three scanners for computed tomography and a mobile medical diagnostic container made using advanced technologies, the Japanese Embassy in Uzbekistan said.

Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khojaev met with Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Abul Kalam Abdul Momen In Dhaka.

Accor, a world leading hospitality group, announces the signing of the new cooperation agreement with Lumiere LLC to open the first ibis hotel in Tashkent in 2023. It is the second joint project of Accor and Lumiere LLC with Mercure Tashkent being announced recently and scheduled for opening later this year.

Uzbekistan authorities unblocked Twitter, WeChat and Vkontakte, a move which was by the personnel change in the presidential administration. Earlier, Sardor Umrzoqov was appointed as the head of the administration, and Komil Allamjonov as his deputy.

Officers of the Tashkent branch of the State Security Service, together with the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan and the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the capital, stopped a number of attempts to illegally sell land plots, the press service of the State Security Service reported.

Today, the Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov hosted the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov, the Foreign Ministry said.

At 00:00 on August 1, the nationwide discussion of amendments to the Constitution of Uzbekistan ended. It has been ongoing since June 25th.

The Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine (NMMC) has drawn a $1.2 billion loan from an international consortium of banks to implement an investment program, the press service of the plant reported.

For the first time, trilateral talks between the heads of the ministries of foreign affairs, trade and transport of Uzbekistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan will be held in Tashkent this week. This was announced at a briefing on Monday by the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov.