Ulugbek Mustafoyev has been appointed as new chairman of the board of. In this post he replaced Fazliddin Salomov. Prior to that, Ulugbek Mustafoyev was the first deputy governor of Djizak province.

Sherzod Oblokulov has been appointed as prosecutor of Tashkent city, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday, the press service of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting Monday devoted to preliminary analysis of the socio-economic development of the country in the first half of 2017.

On June 12, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting with the visiting delegation from Poland headed by the Plenipotentiary for International Dialogue of the Polish government, the senator Anna Maria Anders, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

A three-day meeting of working groups of government delegations of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on the issues of delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Uzbek boundary ended in Dushanbe.

During his Andijan province trip, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev familiarized himself with the project of a large logistics complex for processing, freezing and marketing of fruit and vegetables, set up by JV Navigul in Khojaabod district.

The Uzbek Senate elected Alisher Kurmanov Chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations, Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Tourism.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Andijan province on June 2, UzA said. The Head of state intends to familiarize himself with status of projects implementation in Andijan and visit makhallas, schools and other social facilities.

An employee of the French Embassy in Uzbekistan, Major Francis Delègue, Head of the Regional Operational Security, also responsible for Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, died in an accident in the Chimgan mountains on Saturday, a spokesman for the diplomatic mission said.

On June 1, 2017, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America Pamela Leora Spratlen.

Uzbekistan will ask Saudi Arabia to increase the country quota for small pilgrimage (Umrah) to 10 thousand people in 2018, the Committee for Religious Affairs under the Cabinet of Ministers said.

On 30 May 2017, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan was held a meeting with the Special Representative of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for development of cooperation with the CIS countries Muhammad Shakir Korgar.

On May 30, 2017 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed an Order appointing Kozim Tulaganov as deputy chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Construction - the head of the Office for Architectural and Construction Supervision (formerly the Main Office for State Supervision over Compliance with Quality of Design and Construction and Installation Works), a statement of the Government portal said.

On May 31, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov received the visiting Junior Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Ivan Jancarek, who arrived in Uzbekistan for inter-MFA political consultations, bilateral meetings in the Senate, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Committee for Investments and is expected to visit Khorezm province.

On May 29, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting focusing on the analysis and assessment of the status of the accords, agreements and projects signed following his state visits to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and China, as well as talks with the President Turkey.

The National Media Board, which was inaugurated on May 29, announced the introduction in Uzbekistan of a television audience measurement system.

A delegation of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic led by Deputy Minister Ivan Jancarek arrived in Tashkent to take part in the sixth round of Uzbek-Czech political consultations between Foreign Ministries which will take place on May 31.

On May 27, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov made an address at the 10th plenary session of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, the press service of the ministry said.

Project HOPE Executive Vice President Chris Skopec visited Uzbekistan in May to meet with government officials on current TB control interventions and to deliver an opening address at the conference on the End TB Strategy and Patient-Centered Care.