On Saturday, April 10, a The EU’s special system of preferences for sustainable development and good governance (GSP +) will take effect for Uzbekistan, to which Uzbekistan was admitted as a beneficiary country under the General Scheme of Preferences (GSP).

The Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Christine Linde is expected to visit Uzbekistan on April 13-14, announced at a briefing today the spokesman to the President of Uzbekistan Sherzod Asadov. Ann Christine Linde is scheduled to be hosted by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

On April 10-11, 2021, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will pay a working visit to Qatar, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to South Korea and Russia in the coming months. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office will arrive in Uzbekistan next week, as well as online summit will be held with the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The Senate will convene for the fourteenth plenary session on April 23, the upper house of parliament said. At the online session, it is planned to review:

The governors of Kashkadarya province Zoir Mirzaev and Navoi province Kobil Tursunov wre reprimanded. During yesterday's online government meeting, the prosecutor of the Kashkadarya province, the head of the provincial police department, and the prosecutor of Navoi province were also reprimanded.

An online summit of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled for next week, the spokesman to the President of Uzbekistan Sherzod Asadov told reporters at a briefing on Friday.

The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education and the Swiss Embassy in Uzbekistan are implementing a project to support vocational education reform. The project is designed for 2021-2033, the Ministry of Higher Education said.

The President of Uzbekistan signed a decree appointing Gairat Fazilov as the Deputy Foreign Minister on April 8, the Foreign Ministry said.

The procedure for expanding the network of cinemas was approved by the president’s Measures to elevate the cinema and film industry to a qualitatively new level and to further improve the system of state support to the industry Decree.

The localization program will allow Uzbekistan before the year-end to organize the production of import-substituting products worth over US$ 3 billion and increase exports by US$ 1 billion, said the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov at the opening of the international industrial exhibition INNOPROM in Tashkent on April 5.

The president signed the Measures to further improve the system of governance in the fields of tourism, sports and cultural heritage Decree establishing the Cultural Heritage Agency was under the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

Uzbekistan has become "the first and only country to successfully launch mandatory digital labeling of beer in the CIS countries," the State Tax Committee said.

Uzbekistan GTL plant is planned to be commissioned in August in the Kashkadarya province, the Uzbekneftegaz’s stand at the INNOPROM exhibition noted.

Artak Kamalyan, the Minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) for Industry and Agroindustrial Complex, said that documents on Uzbekistan's interaction with the EAEU are almost ready.

The Samarkand province department (SPD) commented on the video footage that appeared on social networks with a flock of sheep near the Nurabad district mayor’s office. The SPD reported that the incident took place on April 6 at approximately 16:00.

On April 6, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted a delegation from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea led by Speaker of the National Assembly Park Byeong-seug, the presidential press service said.

The President was signed a decree merging the Ministry of Sports and the Tourism Development Committee into the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

On April 6, the Chair of the Senate Tanzila Narbaeva met with the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Park Byeong-seog.

A delegation led by the Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy in U.S. Central Command, Brigadier General Duke A. Pirak landed in Uzbekistan, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan said.