The Republic of Uzbekistan and the European Union signed today an Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (EPCA), marking a significant milestone in strengthening bilateral relations.  It marks an important deepening of regional ties, elevating them to a new level of strategic cooperation following the EU-Central Asia Summit held on 4 April in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 

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Passenger car sales in Uzbekistan topped 84,600 units in September, recording a 6.4% decrease compared to August, the Center for Economic Research and Reforms said in a review.

Alisher Tursunov, aka Mubashir Akhmad’s lawyer Abdullah Sadiq said that Mubashir Akhmad was not willing to appeal the verdict of the court. However, he did not elaborate on the reason for this.

The Central Bank aims to maintain inflation at around 8% in 2025, approaching the 5% target set under its inflation target, the Central Bank’s Governor Timur Ishmetov said today in his remarks at the Investor Day, organized by Franklin Templeton.

The British Council’s TeachingEnglish programme is pleased to announce the MENA Online Conference 2025, a free, two-day regional event for English teachers and teacher educators across the Middle East and North Africa. Taking place online on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October 2025, the conference is themed “Teaching English in a multilingual Middle East and North Africa” and aims to inspire educators to embrace learners’ linguistic and cultural diversity as a resource for effective English teaching.

At the Central Asia Warehouse Summit (CAWS) held on 16 October in Almaty, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) presented its strategic vision for developing warehousing infrastructure in Central Asia. The event featured presentations by Iaroslav Mandron, Vice Chairman of the EDB Management Board, and Alexey Skatin, Head of the Directorate for Strategic Projects, who outlined the region’s key investment priorities and infrastructure challenges.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Brussels on October 23-24, the presidential press service said today.

The Industry, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Committee has prepared a draft resolution that provides for the establishment of basic standards for building and encouraging safety culture at nuclear plants and at entities servicing them.

On 20 October, the EU brought together foreign ministers and representatives from EU Member States, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Republic of Moldova, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Central Asian partners (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) to discuss the Cross-Regional Connectivity Agenda – whose aim is to link the EU with Central Asia via Türkiye and the South Caucasus.

On September 30, the Tashkent’s Yashnabad district criminal court issued a verdict in a case of a fatal traffic accident. According to the verdict, the man , 56, an attorney working for a private firm, was driving a BYD vehicle along Abdulla Kadiri Street at approximately 4:10 PM on May 2. While turning left onto Fargona Yuli Street, he struck a woman, 76, who was crossing the street via zebra crossing.

Criminal case has been opened against an employee of a pretrial detention facility in the Tashkent province, where a 31-year-old convict escaped from a penal colony while on work assignment and raped a third-grade student, the press service of the National Agency for Social Protection of the Population said.

The press service of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev posted his congratulatory message on Uzbek Language Day. The message noted the country's challenges in strengthening the role and prestige of the national language in society and promoting its widespread popularity around the wrold.

Saudi Arabian DataVolt is discussing connecting Uzbekistan to the international communications line running from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan through the bottom of the Caspian Sea, DataVolt’s CEO Rajit Nanda told in a press conference.

Uzbekistan authorities unveiled plans to launch high-speed internet for remote areas of the country in 2026, the president Mirziyoyev announced at the government meeting on IT development.

The Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party has proposed to significantly harshen penalties for drivers who grossly violate traffic regulations.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of the IT-park project in Tashkent’s Mirzo Ulugbek district.

The Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Shukhrat Kholmukhammedov hosted the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov in Samarkand city yesterday.

On the evening of October 20, a report surfaced on social media claiming that a 31-year-old man, sentenced in 2018 to 16 years in prison for rape and held in a penal colony in Akhangaran district of Tashkent province, had raped a third-grader.

Due to the holding of the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference, roads entering Samarkand will be closed from October 30 to November 14, the Interior Ministry said.