Today, the Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov hosted the chief of the Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) Vladimir Misev.

Over 15 billion soums (USD 1.35 million) were spent to hold the Tashkent International Investment Forum. For example, an agreement was signed with Sky Events LLC on the purchase of 1.5-liter Coca-Cola drink for 32 thousand soums (retail price at grocery store is 10,000 soums), and Sochnaya Dolina juices for 48 thousand soums (retail price at grocery store is 13,000 soums).

The construction of a prefabricated houses production factory has commenced in Qorgontepa. According to UzA, the Qorgontepa district of Andijon province is one of the remote territories of the country.

On July 19 the Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov met with Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili, who arrived in Uzbekistan as part of a delegation led by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.

Strong wind and dust storm are observed in the border areas of Kashkadarya with Bukhara, announced the lead specialist of Uzhydromet Erkin Abdulahatov.

Officials of the Volleyball Federation and others are suspected of embezzling public funds on an especially large scale, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Tuesday.

Resident of Buloqboshi district of Andijan province, A.I., has been giving private religious lessons Since 2020 to children from Uzbekistan and neighboring Kyrgyzstan at home “without the appropriate religious knowledge and permits,” the provincial police department reported.

The State Statistics Committee on Monday unveiled information on how many tourists and from which country visited Uzbekistan in June.

One of the deputy mayors of Oqoltin district was detained while receiving $400 in a bribe from the head of a local enterprise in his office in an operation carried out by State Security Service officers of Sirdaryo province, the State Security Service reported.

Tashkent hosted the next congress of the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF), at which Uzbekistan was selected to host the 2024 Asian Championships, the National Olympic Committee said.

On Monday, a Georgian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili arrived in Tashkent on an official visit. At the airport, he was welcomed by the Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Deputy Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khodjaev and other officials, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade said.

Samarkand will host the conference European Union-Central Asia on November 17-18. The Samarkand EU Conference on Sustainable Connectivity with Central Asia will be the first regional connectivity conference under the new EU Global Gateway strategy adopted on 1 December 2021.

$34.1 million worth of 1,125 electric vehicles were imported to Uzbekistan in January-June 2022, the State Statistics Committee said in a report on Monday.

Hot weather will continue in the first half of the week in Uzbekistan, the Uzhydromet reported. The air temperature across the country will be within +38…+43 degrees, in the south and the desert zone in some places up to +44…+45.

Сholpon-Ata, Issyk-Kul region, Kyrgyzstan will host the next Central Asia Summit on July 20-21. This was announced by Muratbek Azymbakiev, head of the foreign policy department of the presidential administration of Kyrgyzstan.

MPs of the Legislative Chamber at July 16 meeting considered and approved the candidacy of Jamshid Khodjaev for the post of Deputy PM - Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade, who replaced Sardor Umurzakov who was appointed head of the Presidential Administration the lower house reported.

The Legislative Chamber and the Senate formed a joint commission to conduct an independent investigation into the events in Karakalpakstan. The commission is headed by Ombudsman Feruza Eshmatova.

By a presidential decree, Sardor Umurzakov was appointed head of the Presidential Administration, president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Cabinet of Ministers issued the Approval of the list of foreign states whose citizens have the right to purchase new real estate under construction in the Republic of Uzbekistan Resolution.

The number of Uzbekistan’s permanent population is increasing by 1.8 thousand people per day, the State Statistics Committee said in a report.