A significant step has been made towards transport digitalisation with the first eTIR pilot movements between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Today, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the Russian President Vladimir Putin over the telephone, the Uzbek presidency press service said in a statement.

The Ministry of Finance presented the 20 largest taxpayers in Uzbekistan. These companies are projected to contribute 47.3% of total revenues of the state budget in 2021, the draft Citizens Budget 2021 noted.

Uzbekistan calls for a phased resumption of flights, train and bus services between the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to promote tourism and cultural exchange, the Uzbekistan PM Abdulla Aripov said today in his statement at an online meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO countries.

After videoconference meeting with the Uzbek Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó, speaking to the press, said that Uzbekistan is a "key economic partner" in Central Asia for Hungary, Dunyo news agency reported.

Komil Allamjonov, the chief of the board of trustees of the Public Fund for Support and Development of National Mass Media, commented on the publications of online media outlets, which reported receiving warnings from the Agency of Information and Mass Communications.

Presidential deputy-adviser in charge of the economy Galina Saidova gave an interview to La Tribune: "Since 2017, the reforms introduced by President Shavkat Mirzioyev have placed Uzbekistan on an unprecedented growth path.

The Ministry of Justice, together with the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, has developed a draft Teacher’s Status Bill.

Cyber cafes will be allowed to open from December 1, the Ministry of Health reported, citing the decision of the Special Republican Commission to Combat Coronavirus. The commission noted that the move was aimed at developing the cyber gaming in the country.

On the sidelines of the 13th Republic of Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum, on November 26, 2020, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

As part of the Class! humanitarian project, the Uzbek Public Education Ministry and the Russia Ministry of Enlightment have announced the recruitment of Russian language teachers to be deployed in Uzbekistan, Rossiyskaya Gazeta said.

The former President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, commended the reforms carried out in Uzbekistan during the Presidency of Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

On November 26, 2020, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the President of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Lee Mi-kyung, in Seoul, the ministry said.

Uzbekistan will restore its membership in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) from 2021. This decision was made on November 23 at the annual session by the committee of plenipotentiaries of the JINR member states, the Academy of Sciences reported.

A center for training and retraining of Uzbek and Afghan nurses will open in Termez in the second half of 2021. Germany has also pledged US$ 10 million euros to strengthen the role of women in public administration, the Senate said in a statement.

The Ministry of Justice posted the government’s draft additional measures to improve the legal literacy of civil servants resolution for public input.

On November 25, at about 12:35 pm, a family of four died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Khavas district of the Syrdarya province, the General Prosecutor's Office said.

The Polish Oil and Gas Company and the Solidarity Fund of Poland provided humanitarian aid worth of US$ 300,000 to Uzbekistan, Dunyo reported.

A vaccine production unit and a testing laboratory meeting high international standards will be set up in Uzbekistan. This is provided for by the president’s Comprehensive Measures to Develop Biotechnology and Improve the System for Ensuring the Uzbekistan’s Biological Security Decree, the Uzbekistan 24 reported.

On November 20, Uzbekistan issued dual tranches of Eurobonds worth US$ 555 million and 2 trillion soums with maturities in 2030 and 2023, respectively. The yield on dollar-denominated eurobonds is 3.7%, while those denominated in soums are 14.5% per annum.