The Decree of the Uzbek Health Minister dated November 7 has approved the Regulation on the procedure for manufacture and display of signs that ban drinking of alcohol and smoking and informing about area and (or) premises designated for smoking. The document will come into force from the beginning of March 2017.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his congratulatory message to Shavkat Mirziyoyev on victory in the Presidential election called him "dear friend."

Starting from April 1, 2017 Uzbekistan will abolish visa regime for the nationals of Australia, Austria, UK, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Finland, Switzerland and Japan, entering into the country for tourism purposes for a period not exceeding 30 days.

The mission of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in its statement of preliminary findings and conclusions at a press conference on the Sunday's early Presidential elections noted good organization of the electoral process and the measures aimed at transparency, but “underscored the need of comprehensive reform to address procedural and systemic shortcomings”.

China’a President Xi Jinping congratulated Shavkat Mirziyoyev on his victory in the Uzbekistan presidential election, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's press service said on Monday.

On December 5, the Uzbek Foreign Minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov received the Executive Director of the Canadian company Cloud-Fi Inc., Joe Daniel.

On December 5 the President-elect of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the CIS Executive Committee Chairman, Sergei Lebedev.

On December 5 the President-elect of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization observer mission, the SCO Secretary General, Rashid Alimov.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Shavkat Mirziyoyev on his being elected as the President of Uzbekistan, the UN News Centre said.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev congratulated Shavkat Mirziyoyev on his election as the President of Uzbekistan, the press service of Akorda said.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the President-elect of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev over the telephone, the Kremlin press service said.

The president-elect Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed to his supporters after his announcement as the winner of the presidential elections.

In the Uzbekistan presidential elections Shavkat Mirziyoyev won most of the votes - 88.61%. According to preliminary data, 15,906,724 citizens voted for the UzLiDeP candidate, the chairman of the Central Election Commission Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov said at a briefing on Monday.

The CIS observers mission stated that Uzbekistan Presidential elections held on December 4 were free, transparent and competitive.

The observation mission of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has recognized that Uzbekistan presidential election held on December 4 were open, free and democratic.

At 20:00 voting in 9383 polling stations in the country and 44 stations abroad for the Uzbekistan Presidential Election was finished.

In line with the Uzbekistan Election Law starting from 00:00 AM on December 3 the pre-election campaign shall be stopped and the Day of silence shall come into force, thus today and tomorrow which is the polling day, it is prohibited to hold campaigning in media and through other forms of advertising.

Frederick Starr, the chairman of the Institute of Central Asia and the Caucasus at Johns Hopkins University (USA), is currently in Uzbekistan among many international observers for presidential elections to be held on December 4.

On December 1, the Director of the Political Department of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ali Abolhassani Shahreza arrived in Tashkent to perform his duties as the head of the OIC observation mission in the upcoming Presidential election.

On December 1, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the CIS, Sergey Lebedev arrived in Tashkent, a statement of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan said.