In New York, the Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov met with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday. "We are pleased to meet with His Excellency Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the UN Headquarters," the Foreign Minister Saidov said on his Telegram account.

Demand for power will steadily grow by 7.5% annually until 2030, the Energy Minister Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov said at the Russian Energy Week on September 26.

The Russian Gazprom Neft is exploring the possibility of implementing new projects in Uzbekistan, including the construction of a gas stations network, TASS reported with reference to the Gazprom Neft CEO, Alexander Dyukov.

A man has been brought to administrative liability for harassing a girl in the Tashkent subway. According to the case and the testimony of the victim, on September 24 she was returning from school on the subway to the Novza station. Muzaffar Shomakhsudov, 31, entered the train at the People’s Friendship station.

Uzgidromet unveiled the weather forecast for the Tashkent city on the weekend, September 28-29. No precipitation is expected, with slight, in places variable cloudiness. The temperature at night will be +9…+12 degrees, and on September 28-29 — +25…+28 degrees.

Statistics Agency reported the number of phones imported to Uzbekistan in January-August this year. Reportedly, about 2.6 million mobile phones worth US$ 236.2 million were imported into Uzbekistan in January-August, over 10 thousand phones a day.

489 million soums worth of embezzlement has been found at the Uzbekistan Basketball Federation of, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Uzbekistan Constitutional Court delegation headed by the court’s chairman, Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov attended the 6th Congress and Council of Members of the Asian Association of Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions (AACC) held in Bangkok on September 17-21.

Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York met with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.

Tashkent appellate court ruled to release the driver of a Kia Stinger, who hit a pedestrian in the Sergeli district of Tashkent in the spring. On May 9, at about 17:00, at the territory of the Avtotuning.uz car service (not far from the airport), 24-year-old driver A. Kh. hit 27-year-old owner of the Instagram page avtotuning_uz D. K., who died from his injuries on the way to the hospital.

The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov today addressed the general debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov met with the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia Juraj Blanár. "Happy to sign the Agreement on economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and Slovakia with H.E. Juraj Blanár, Slovakia’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs. Business-to-business partnership, facilitating trade growth, and joint projects will bring more tangible outcomes to the bilateral relations. During our meeting we also had an exchange on a number of topics of bilateral, regional, and global collaboration.," he wrote on his telegram channel.

In January-August, Uzbekistan imported $1.15 billion worth of gas, the Agency of Statistics said in a report. This is 5.7 times more (in value terms) than in the first eight months of 2023, when the volume of gas exports topped $201.8 million. This also exceeds the total volume of gas imports in 2023 ($694.9 million).

Uzbekistan Railways has resumed Tashkent to Moscow passenger train service, the company's press service said. The carrier had suspended international flights in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 27 October parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan, following an official invitation from the national authorities.

The president Mirziyoyev signed a Decree on September 24 approving the Program of urgent measures aimed at improving the quality of air in Tashkent. The program includes the following:

According to the latest edition of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Regional Economic Prospects report, the short-term regional economic outlook for Central Asia remains positive. Regional growth is set to reach 5.1 per cent in 2024 and accelerate to 5.9 per cent in 2025 on stronger commodity revenues, infrastructure investment and market-oriented reforms.

Uzbekistan plans to increase water use efficiency by 25% in the next five years, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Samarkand on Wednesday.

Tashkent to Samarkand and Samarkand to Bukhara high-speed railway will be erected in Uzbekistan, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced today 25 at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Samarkand.

On May 29, 2024, a drunken man drove a GM Captiva crossover into the stadium and drove the car into people, endangering the lives of those around him. A criminal case was launched under Hooliganism charge, the driver was arrested and the car was placed in the penalty area.