The Alisher Navoi International Institute will be established to promote the Uzbek language, culture and national traditions in foreign countries, and to strengthen humanitarian ties.

Uzbekistan will step up cultural and humanitarian cooperation with the UN and its specialized agencies. This is stipulated in the draft Roadmap of the development strategy for 2022-2026 to be implemented in 2022.

Gasoline imports increased by 112 million liters, the State Statistics Committee said in a report. Reportedly, in January-November 2021, Uzbekistan imported 308.4 million liters of gasoline worth $ 115.3 million.

Uzbekistan plans to expand strategic and comprehensive cooperation with the United States, Canada and the American States.

Uzbekistan is set for a busy 2022 on the diplomatic front that will see the country host several international summits and events.

The caretaker government of the Taliban began negotiations on the return of helicopters that were hijacked to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the fall of the previous regime, Inamulla Samangani, deputy spokesman of the caretaker Taliban government told at a press briefing.

As per the draft road map of the Development Strategy for 2022-2026, this year the Uzbek leader is scheduled to visit Belgium, UK, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland and Scandinavian countries.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev went on short vacation on 5 January, announced the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov. The head of state was also on short vacation last year in early January.

A nationwide wave of protests that began in western Kazakhstan has reached the country’s commercial capital, Almaty, where thousands of demonstrators clashed overnight January 4 with riot police wielding shields, tear gas and stun grenades. After hours of unrest, the president declared a state of emergency in the city and other parts of the country.

From January 1, 2022, the government bodies will not be entitled to demand several types of documents from Uzbeks. This is stipulated in the president’s Measures to improve the infrastructure for the provision of public services and expand the opportunities for the population to use government services Decree.

One of the items of the draft Roadmap of the Development Strategy for 2022-2026 proposed to open new consulates of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2022.

The contract was signed between Dadajon Isakulov, President of National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan and Hafiz Mohammad Amin, Chief Executive Officer of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS). This agreement has been signed following two days of talks between the two parties.

One of the items of the draft Roadmap of the Development Strategy for 2022-2026 to be implemented in 2022 proposed to provide free meals to primary school students in some provinces of Uzbekistan.

It is planned to further develop and support private health sector. This is stated in one of the items of the draft Roadmap of the Development Strategy for 2022-2026 to be implemented in 2022.

The President signed the Measures to expedite greening and further effective organization of tree protection in the republic Decree.

As per the order of the Foreign Minister of Romania, Bogdan Aurescu, this country made two voluntary contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) worth total of 60 thousand euros for projects in Uzbekistan, the Romanian Ambassador to Tashkent Daniel Christian Ciobanu said.

It is planned to improve the activities of the patrol police, including by abolition of procedure of taking individuals for check through introduction of modern ITs.

Uzbekistan, chairing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2022, plans to hold more than 80 international events and to develop a program to boost intraregional trade and step up cooperation in the field of security.

By the Dec. 30 presidential decree, Vladimir Norov was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said. On December 31, he was presented at a meeting of the collegium of the ministry.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the Uzbek people on the New Year and proposed to declare 2022 as the "Year of Ensuring Human Interests and Development of Mahalla".