The chief of Uzbekistan’s mission to NATO, the Ambassador Dilyor Khakimov met with the newly appointed NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Politics and Security, the Special Representative for Central Asia and the Caucasus Javier Kolomina, Dunyo reported.

In an interview to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov explained the reasons for Uzbekistan's being cautious in making a decision to join the Eurasian Economic Union.

Presentation of Russian-made metro cars that arrived the other day took place today at the Tashkent-Central railway station. The delivery of the current third batch of metro cars, was the final one from the side of the Uzbekistan Railways, which now completed its obligations to the Tashkent metro imposed by the president's Implementation of the project "Acquisition of ten metro trains for the Tashkent metro overground line" Decree. 

Uzbekistan will prepare a document on mutual recognition with Russia of vaccination certificates against coronavirus by mid-November. the chief of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Authority, Bakhodir Yusupaliev said.

On October 25, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to provide the population and sectors of the economy with natural and liquefied gas decree.

On October 25, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed amendments to the Tax Code. The amenments was passed by the Legislative Chamber on October 19 and was approved by the Senate on October 21.

Data from World Prison Brief released on Monday, October 25, show that Uzbekistan has 22,867 prisoners, or 68 per 100 thousand of the population.

The United States supports the people of Uzbekistan for exercising their right to vote in the presidential elections on October 24.  We concur with the OSCE-ODIHR monitoring mission’s observation that the vote was peaceful and characterized by high voter turnout but share the OSCE mission’s concerns that the elections took place in an overly restrictive political environment and that important election safeguards were disregarded.

Thanks to the American people's generosity, 273,780 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been delivered today to Uzbekistan to fight COVID-19.  This is the second part of the shipment of 800,280 Pfizer vaccine doses for Uzbekistan; the initial shipment comprising 526,500 doses, arrived in Tashkent on October 18. 

After the announcement of the provisional results, the president-elect Shavkat Mirziyoyev today addressed the voters and members of the UzLiDeP party.

Despite recent welcome reforms, the lack of genuine pluralism and meaningful engagement between candidates or with citizens meant that Uzbekistan’s presidential election was not truly competitive, while significant procedural irregularities were noted on election day, international observers said in a statement today.

The caretaker government of Afghanistan, formed by the Taliban movement, pledged to fully pay off debts to Uzbekistan for electricity, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov told in an interview to Russian journalists on Saturday.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been re-elected for a second term following elections held on Sunday. According to provisional data announced today by the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Zainiddin Nizamhodjaev, 80.1% of voters voted for Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party. The CEC declared him as the president-elect.

The United States of America shipped another 273,780 doses of Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines to Uzbekistan, announced the Uzbek Ambassador to the United States, Javlon Vakhobov on his Twitter page.

Preparations to tackle the legacy of former uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan can begin, following the signing of a grant agreement today between the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA) and the government of Uzbekistan.

The Special Coordinator of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian MP Reinhold Lopatka, who is in charge of the OSCE short-term observer mission in the presidential elections in Uzbekistan, shared his views on the election campaign and the voting process with journalists. As an observer, he visited a number of polling stations in Tashkent.

Mark Reese, the author of the translation of the novel "The Bygone Days " by Abdulla Qodiri said that the promised honorarium on behalf of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had not been paid after five months. He wrote about this in a series of Twitter posts addressed to the President of Uzbekistan.

On October 18, another batch of 526.5 thousand doses of Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was delivered to Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Health said.

The State Assets Management Agency unveiled the plan to attract a specialized entity to develop a Master plan for further privatization and operation of the park at the Tashkent City business district, the agency said.

Tehran will host a meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighboring countries on October 27. The statement came from Said Khatibzadeh, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.