The U.S. State Department placed Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, as Countries of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated ”systematic, ongoing, [and] egregious violations of religious freedom”.

Delegation of the International Labor Organization (ILO), headed by the Director-General Guy Ryder will visit Uzbekistan on December 13, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Islam Karimov Jr., who is currently residing in London, UK, posted a statement on his Instagram page that his mother Gulnara Karimova was ready to support the new development of the country.

Uzbek Deputy PM Aziz Abdukhakimov hosted the regional director for CIS and Russia at Lufthansa Ronald Schultz, who told he had arrived in Uzbekistan to explore the possibility of resumption of Lufthansa flights to Uzbekistan, with the company intending to shift its Frankfurt-Baku-Ashgabat flight to Frankfurt-Baku-Tashkent. In this case, initially, the German air company is reportedly planning to operate three flights a week.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Deputy Assistant to the U.S. President, Senior Director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council Lisa Curtis, the presidential press service said.

Draft Investments and Investment Activities Bill, developed pursuant to the President’s Measures to Fundamentally Improve Uzbekistan’s Investment Climate Decree of August 1, 2018 has been published on the Draft Legal Documents Discussion Portal.

Seven man-made reservoirs of 45 million cubic meters total storage capacity will be created in Uzbekistan, the move being aimed at reclamation of rainfed lands, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated in congratulatuary mesaage to agricultural workers.

On December 10, the Uzbek Foreign Minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted a US delegation led by U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the informal meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in St. Petersburg on Thursday, the Presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan delegation headed by the Special Representative of the President for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev today held talks with the Special Representative of the British Prime Minister for Afghanistan and Pakistan in London, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

A US$ 225.8 million worth of agro-industrial TCT Cluster will be set up in Kuyichirchik district of Tashkent province, it said in the Cabinet of Ministers' Dec 1 Resolution.

The Government of Uzbekistan has appointed Bahodir Eshmuratov as the new chairman of the board of Uztransgaz JSC. In this position, Eshmuratov replaced Sharifjon Tursunov, who was named as the Chairman in June 2018.

The seventeenth plenary session of the Uzbek Senate will convene on December 13, the Senate said. The session agenda includes the review of the 2019 State Budget, the budgets of state trust funds and the tax and budget policies for 2019.

The Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov spoke to the Ukraine’s First Vice PM/ Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv Wednesday, the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree appointed Bahodir Nizomov as Deputy Minister of Health, the ministry said.

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad will travel to Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan with an interagency delegation from December 2 – 20, the U.S. Department of State said.

The Embassy of Turkey took over the authority from the Embassy of Latvia to establish ties between NATO and Uzbekistan for the period 2019-2020.

On December 6 President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the informal meeting of the heads of the CIS member states in St. Petersburg, where the presidents will set out the main activities of the Commonwealth for 2019, the Foreign Ministry said.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov today hosted Yevgeny Sysoev, who is ending his three-year posting as the director of the Executive Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO), Foreign Ministry said.

Uzbekistan delegation headed by the Director General of the UzAtom Agency Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov visited Ukraine with the aim of familiarizing with the Ukrainian experience in the field of nuclear energy. UzAtom Agency said.