Chief of Afghan Railways visiting Uzbekistan, The parties intend to discuss the project of a transport corridor between Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and China, the press service of the Afghan Railways said.

Samarkand will host the SCO Summit next week, which will be the first face-to-face meeting of SCO leaders since 2019 and the end of Uzbekistan's chairmanship in the organization, the presidential press service said in a statement.

On September 7, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Ambassador of the United States of America Daniel Rosenblum, who is ending his posting in Uzbekistan, the presidential press service said.

The forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit of Heads of State, to be held in Uzbekistan, will ensure that the multilateral body is not just expanded but that the Eurasian region acquire a new strategic dimension, said Dilshod Akhatov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to India.

The first ministerial meeting of the Strategic Dialogue: Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States-Central Asia will be held in Riyadh. According to a message published on the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the delegation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, headed by the Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov will visit Riyadh to attend the meeting.

Officials of the Uzbek Embassy in Spain met with the leadership of the ATEVAL textile entrepreneurs association of the Valencian community and representatives of large textile companies as part of the negotiations with leading companies and retailers on the inclusion of the country's enterprises in the production chain of foreign brands, Dunyo reported.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) together with the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan organized a conference to share and discuss Uzbekistan’s draft Entrepreneurship Code. The new code, which was drafted with technical assistance from USAID, will make it easier for Uzbekistan’s entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses by reducing administrative burdens and creating a business environment friendly to investors. 

Driver in Tashkent province was fined for taking two children to school in the back of a Labo mini-truck, the press service of the Traffi Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. The footage of this surfaced on social networks on September 6.

Turkish and Russian leaders Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin may discuss the grain deal on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand on September 15-16, RIA Novosti said.

Yesterday, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the presidential press service reported.

Ahead of the SCO’s Samarkand Summit, some countries are trying to interpret the SCO as an anti-Western bloc. This does not meet Uzbekistan’s interests, says the political scientist, Kamoliddin Rabbimov.

On September 6, Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov met in Brussels with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell.

The city of Randolph, New Jersey (USA) hosted an event dedicated to the 31st anniversary of Uzbekistan’s state independence and the official opening of the diaspora organization Uzbek Society of America.

20% discount will apply for Tashkent to Dushanbe passenger train service from September 6. The relevant agreement was reached between Uzbekistan Airways and Rokhi Ohani Tojikiston to reduce the ticket fares for international passenger train service between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Cyber security forum of the SCO kicked off today in Tashkent. The organizers of the forum are the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President, the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies, together with the executive committee of the regional anti-terrorist structure of the SCO.

Cooperation with South Korean local police departments on crime prevention will be developed. Officials of the Uzbek Embassy f in Seoul met with Song Pyong Jin, the officer in charge of the International Cooperation Department of the Changwon City Police Department, the administrative center of Gyeongsan-namdo Province, Dunyo reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will personally attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan. This was announced by his spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

On August 30-31, the Global Infrastructure Cooperation Conference (GICC 2022) was held in Seoul, South Korea. The event was attended by the First Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chairman of the Board of Uzsuvtaminot Sohib Saifnazarov, who briefed the participants about the work and projects implemented in the field of drinking water supply and sanitation in the country in recent years. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Uzbekistan next week to attend in the SCO summit in Samarkand on September 15-16.

Uzbekistan ranked 86th in an annual Global Peace Index this year, finishing at 86 among 163 countries, while Iceland remained at the top position, according to a report by an international think tank.