Artificial Intelligence Council has been set up in Uzbekistan under the leadership of Advisor to the Minister of Innovative Development Bobur Rakhimov.

As part of the visit of the government delegation, the Uzbek Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khojaev met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Leonid Zaits in Minsk.

At the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan was held a meeting with the delegation of South Korea, Dunyo reported. Reportedly, the delegation headed by the visiting Chairman of the Construction and Transport Committee of the Korean Parliament Kim Du Gwan was hosted by the Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan, Azizbek Latifjonov.

Uzbekistan was placed 96th out of 106 in the ranking of countries of average monthly net salary, according to Numbeo. Uzbekistan net salary topped 278.79 US dollars, higher than in some African countries, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Brazil has expressed readiness to organize Portuguese language courses for the Uzbek youth, Dunyo reported. that during the visit of the Ambassador of Uzbekistan Javlon Vahobov to Brasilia city, talks were held with the Secretary of Higher Education Vilas Boas de Souza.

Protection of private property rights may be carried out in a number of ways, the Legal Information channel said, namely:

The Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Austria Abat Faizullaev held a meeting with the director of the Vienna Diplomacy Academy (VDA), the former ambassador of Austria to Russia Emil Brix, Dunyo reported.

Residents of Tyumen were detained at Roschino airport, who were trying to smuggle jewelry worth 13.8 million rubles (about $230.9 thousand) to Tashkent.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the meeting of defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on August 24.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Ministry for Support of Mahalla and Older Generation kick starts special courses for the leaders of target mahallas in Tashkent on various aspects of preventing violent extremism and responding to early signs of radicalization.

Today, the Commander of the National Guard of Uzbekistan, the Major-General Rustam Juraev met with the delegation led by the U.S. Congressmen Trent Kelly and Darin Lakhud.

Authorized representatives of the special services of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan held talks on the situation on the state border of the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The parties considered the ways to further advance mutually beneficial cooperation and strengthen of strategic partnership ties between the two countries.

Military exercises of the United States of America in Central Asia, in which some SCO countries are participating, are needed by Washington to study a potential theater of operations. This opinion was expressed by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting with colleagues in Tashkent on August 19, EurAsia Daily reported.

Uzbek Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu to discuss a number of issues of Uzbek-American cooperation, progress in implementing previously reached agreements and a schedule of upcoming joint events.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad may hold a bilateral meeting in Samarkand. The two leaders have not spoken since 2011.

In a move to promote trade activities on the trade route between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two countries are going to grant a six month visa to truck drivers.

On August 22, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the U.S. congressmen Trent Kelly and Darin Lahoud, the presidential press service said.

A group of Afghans were seen violating the state border and moored to the island in their boats on the territory of Aral Paygambar island on Amu Darya River in Surkhandarya province on August 21. They resisted to the frontier troops of Uzbekistan that arrived at the place. This was reported by the Sarhad.uz Telegram channel of the Border Troops of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan.

Uzhydromet published a weather forecast for the week. According to them, last weekend there was an influx of cool air mass from the Urals into the country. The air temperature dropped to 10-15°C at night and to 25-30°C during the day.