A 58-item Action Strategy was developed following the visit of the Vice President of Turkey to Tashkent. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğanis also scheduled to visit Tashkent before the year-end.

Tactical drills were held in the military districts of the Ministry of Defense as part of the check of the combat readiness of all military and enforcement units and their interaction, the Ministry of Defense said.

On June 28, Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting on the development of copper production and setting up of an industrial cluster, the presidential press service said.

Construction contracts for two major COVID-19 medical facilities near Tashkent city were awarded to companies linked to the Uzbek president’s inner circle and the capital city’s mayor.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry on Monday reported of new cases of illegal border crossing by Afghan citizens. On June 27, a group of 44 Afghan border troops and militiamen crssed the state border of Uzbekistan in the area of ​​Shortepa district. A day earlier, on June 26, on the same section of the border, 3 officers of the security forces of the neighboring country entered the territory of Uzbekistan. All Afghan citizens have been returned to their homeland, the Foreign Ministry said.

On June 28, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, who is in Washington on a working visit, met with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Today, Uzbekistan received the delivery of the sixth batch of 1 million doses of the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001, the Ministry of Health said. Another batch of three-component ZF-UZ-VAC2001 of 1 million doses is due tomorrow on June 30.

This year the consultative meeting of the Central Asian leaders will be held in Turkmenistan. Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed the holding of the summit over a telephone conversation with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on June 29, the presidential press service said in a statement.

On June 28, a regular meeting of the Ecological Party was held at the Legislative Chamber, which considered a number of bills in the first and second readings.

On June 28, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the visiting Vice-President of Turkey Fuat Oktay, who is in Uzbekistan on a working visit, the presidential press service said.

On 29 June 2021, the Central Asia Women Leaders Caucus hosted the online roundtable discussion entitled “The Role of Global and Regional Platforms and Coalitions in Enhancing Women’s Participation and Leadership in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding”. The event has been organised jointly by the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, UNDP in Uzbekistan, and the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA).

On June 25, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade S.Umrzakov hosted the Chairman of Sughd province of Tajikistan R. Ahmadzoda.

The Electricity Sector Transformation And Resilient Transmission Project has been approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. The project will improve the performance of the National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU) to ensure reliable energy supplies to millions of households and businesses across the country.

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has issued the updated list of ‘Green List’ destinations. Passengers arriving from these destinations will be exempt from mandatory quarantine measures after landing in Abu Dhabi and will only be required to undergo PCR testing upon arrival at Abu Dhabi Airport.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a working visit to one of the provinces of the country this week, said the Presidential Spokesman Sherzod Asadov at a media briefing on the president’s weekly agenda.

An officer of the Angren city police department, Bekzod Bobomirzaev, committed suicide in the building of the department, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

As part of the COVAX program, one of the vaccines recognized by the World Health Organization is expected to be delivered to Uzbekistan in August, announced Botir Qurbonov, deputy head of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade S. Umurzakov hosted the Turkish Ambassador Olgan Bekar, and discussed the current state and prospects of bilateral trade, economic, investment, transport, logistics, cultural and humanitarian cooperation.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will pay a working visit to the United States from June 27 to July 4, announced the official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Yusup Kabulzhanov.

Voluntary vaccination against coronavirus of everyone over 18 years old begins in Tashkent, the press service of the Ministry of Health said.