The Central Bank unveiled plans to liberalize regulated prices (for electricity, gas, heat supply, communal services) within the framework of the conceptual draft of the Main axes of monetary policy for 2022-2024”.

A WTO Secretariat team, led by Deputy Director-General Zhang Xiangchen, visited Tashkent from 26 to 30 October for a series of meetings concerning Uzbekistan’s bid for WTO membership.

The chief of the State Authority for Control in the Sphere of Informatization and Telecommunications (Uzkomnazorat) Golibsher Ziyaev was sacked by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev "for erroneous and uncoordinated actions," said the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

Four out of ten containers with humanitarian cargo for the Aral Sea zone are ready for shipment and they will be delivered from the United States to Uzbekistan, Dunyo news agency reported.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has put Uzbekistan on the list of countries with an unknown risk of coronavirus infection, the company’s website reported.

The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov yesterday hosted the new ambassador of Saudi Arabia, Yusef al-Otaibi, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Board of the Central Bank approved a provisional conceptual draft Monetary Policy Guidelines for 2022 and 2023-2024, the Bank said in a statement on Tuesday.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) distributed 385,000 student textbooks and teacher guides to 208 public schools in the Namangan and Syrdarya regions as part of a pilot program conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan to improve student learning outcomes in the country. 

During a press briefing, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov expressed his opinion on the nuclear power plant project in Uzbekistan. “First of all, we proceed from the assumption that this is a purely economic project. There can be no political prejudices or political preferences here. Why do we emphasize this? Because there were various speculations around the project in various media,” he said.

The State Assets Management Agency presented for discussion a Cabinet of Ministers draft Measures to improve the management system of traditional markets and shopping centers and the gradual reduction of state’s stake in them Resolution.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov told in what case Uzbekistan will not recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan. “The issue of recognizing the Taliban governments is, of course, on the agenda. We will move towards this together with our allies and partners. But the terms set for the Taliban are so serious that it is very dangerous to react to them separately.

The Russian Railways are ready to cooperate with the Uzbekistan of to prepare a feasibility study for the Trans-Afghan railway project, the company said.

A joint tactical and special drill of special units of the armed forces of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan Qalqon-2021 kicked off in the Guards garrison.

Russia delivered military equipment to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in 2021, including aircrafts and missile systems, the Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugaev told RBC.

Dry, calm and relatively warm weather is expected throughout Uzbekistan today on November 1. By the middle of the day the air will warm up to + 15 ... + 17 degrees Celsius. The same comfortable weather will remain until the middle of the week, the Uzhydromet said.

On October 29, an online meeting was held between the chairman of Uzbekistan Railways" H. Khosilov with the First Deputy General Director of Russian Railways, as well as heads of Russian design and research institutes Roszheldorproekt and IERT, as well as the local Boshtransloyiha research entity.

On October 29, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the amendments and addenda to the Criminal Code and the Administrative Liability Code.

Taliban positively assessed the trips of their delegations to Uzbekistan, Russia and Qatar, stated on Saturday the Deputy Minister of Information and Culture in the caretaker Afghan Cabinet of Ministers Zabihullah Mujahid.

Uzbekistan became the 92nd member country of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the first state to join the union among the countries of Central Asia, the press service of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Hungary in 2022, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced.