Amid an emerging uranium market boom, which was recently spurred by relentless spot uranium purchases primarily by the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust, the World Nuclear Association (WNA) released data on the global uranium production in 2020.

Ruslan Mirzaev, an official of the Security Council under the President of Uzbekistan, has been appointed as the director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure announced the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

The Lower Amudarya State Biosphere Reserve has been added to the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves, announced the Deputy PM/Chairman of the National Commission for UNESCO Aziz Abdukhakimov.

Uzbekistan Airways will resume Tashkent to Kyiv flights from September 26, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking on September 17 at a SCO Summit in Dushanbe, put forward several proposals for cooperation with Afghanistan.

On September 16, in Dushanbe, Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan, the presidential press service said.

By Sep 13 order of the Minister of Internal Affairs, samples of uniforms for traffic police officers were approved, the Traffic Safety Authority said.

The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, during the organization’s security council meeting, commented on the entry of Uzbekistan into the organization on Wednesday.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Dushanbe to attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on September 17, the press service of the head of state said.

Today, the fifth international conference on integrated tuberculosis (TB) control in Central Asia opened in Tashkent. The three-day event is organized by the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, and the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Phthisiology and Pulmonology, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), World Health Organization, KfW development bank, and the Stop TB Partnership.

Law enforcement officers detained 10 people in Tashkent suspected of participating in the activities of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Interior Ministry said.

Two Tashkent men were arrested red-handedly while trying to sell a US$ 1 million banknote, the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office said.

250 observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will arrive in Uzbekistan, announced Owen Murphy, head of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' election observation mission in Uzbekistan at a meeting of the Uzbekistan Central Election Commission.

The President instructed the Ministry of Justice to develop and publish anti-corruption clauses of a recommendatory nature for use by business entities when entering into contracts.

On September 13, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted a group of members of the Parliament of Turkey representing the Justice and Development Party of Turkey, headed by the Deputy Chairman, speaker of the Parliament from Istanbul, Numan Kurtulmuş, the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said in a statement.

The Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan hosted a conference of chiefs of general staffs of the of Central and South Asiaт countries, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan said in a statement.

Due to the increased needs for food in Afghanistan, the UN is increasing stocks of essential goods in warehouses in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The main logistics center was established in the Uzbek city of Termez, announced a UN official at a briefing in New York.

The Uzbek government today delivered 1,300 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in the form of food, medicine and clothing, announced the deputy head of the Taliban’s Culture Commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq.

Today, Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the presidential press service said.

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the Regulation on the procedure for discussing the reasons and conditions behind crimes on Monday.