President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Establishment of additional days off during celebration of official dates and moving days off in 2022 Decree Monday.

Uzbekistan remains the only country in Central Asia that has not been added to the PayPal system, the Minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications Sherzod Shermatov expressed his opinion on this issue.

More than twenty years ago the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security reaffirmed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for maintaining and promoting peace and security. UNSCR 1325 was the first resolution to link women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev proposed to upgrade the ties between Uzbekistan and South Korea to the level of alliance ties, announced the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov.

On December 19, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov attended the third meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the India-Central Asia Dialogue in New Delhi, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) held a capstone event to mark the achievements made by its Local Health System Sustainability (LHHS) COVID-19 response activity. LHSS, which was implemented by Abt Associates Incorporated., and launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. The LHSS activity supported a coordinated national emergency response led by the Ministry of Health and helped build the resilience of the health system against future shocks.

Uzbekistan will commence works on the trans-Afghan railway project in the spring of 2022, the Sputnik Afghanistan reported on Sunday.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations in a statment confirmed reports surfaced on social networks that on December 19, at 5:03 am, two electric locomotives collided near the Angren coal mine of the UzbekCoal company in Tashkent province.

The Antimonopoly Committee has developed a president’s draft Measures to remove barriers for competition and expand areas of businesses Decree.

Uzbek specialists are scheduled to complete the Mazar-e-Sharif airport restoration project in early 2022, the special representative of the Uzbek President for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev told reporters.

After the summit talks, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Moon Jae-in adopted a joint statement on deepening Special Strategic Partnership ties between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Korea and. Digitalisation, green economy and the pursuit of strong social policies are defined as the three pillars of a special strategic partnership ties. Afterwards the two leaders oversaw a ceremony of signing bilateral documents.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is intending to use the logistics center in Termez to provide assistance to Afghanistan, the Fund's office in Tashkent said.

Ceremony of the official meeting of the President of Uzbekistan took place today at the Chong Wa Dae residence of the President of the Republic of Korea in Seoul.

Uzbek and South Korean officials are holding talks on the sidelines of the visit of the Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to South Korea.

The tenth meeting of the Council for Interprovincial and Cross-Border Cooperation of the CIS was held in a video call. The meeting was attended by representatives of Uzbekistan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia.

At the 16th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO, the art of bakhshi was included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as an element of the intangible cultural heritage of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Tourism said.

On December 15, the President of Uzbekistan signed the constitutional State of Emergency Bill into Law. The document was published in Xalq Sozi newspaper today with immediate effect.

Monument to the poet and scholar Alisher Navoi was inaugurated in Seoul today ahead of the state visit of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Republic of Korea.

Due to the enhancing of the Business Ombudsman’s authority in terms of protection of the rights of businesses, the plenary session of the Senate reviewed the Amendments to Articles 245 and 2458 of the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility."

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) donated 30 cutting-edge tuberculosis (TB) testing machines to the people of Uzbekistan. The equipment worth $381,000 was handed over by USAID Mission Director in Uzbekistan Mikaela Meredith to the Deputy Minister of Health Ulugbek Sabirov at the ceremony in the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Phthisiology and Pulmonology.