On September 14-15, Dushanbe will host the fifth Central Asia Summit and the regular meeting of the Council of Heads of the founding states of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, the Foreign Ministry of Tajikistan said.

Today on March 16, Shavkat Mirziyoyev made remarks at the extraordinary Turkic Summit in Ankara, Turkey, dedicated to helping and rebuilding the country after the devastating February earthquakes, the Uzbek presidency website said.

Criminal case has been launched against a 23-year-old Dili.me Viner and his friends on suspicion of beating a man, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Car assembling at a joint Uzbek-Kyrgyz plant in Ak-Suu village of Chuy region, is scheduled to begin in July, the Kyrgyz Deputy Minister of Economy Ainura Usenbekova said.

UzAssets investment company announced that it had reached a deal on sale of a 44.71% government’s stake in UzbekKimyoMash (Uzbek Chemical Machineries) plant with Tropidia Holding (Netherlands) for 37 billion soums ($3.2 million).

According to new data, excess heat in the EU alone amounts to 2,860 TWh/y, corresponding almost to the EU’s total energy demand for heat and hot water in residential and service sector buildings.

Today, on the sidelines of the extraordinary Turkic Summit in Ankara, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, the presidential press service said.

On March 15, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Ankara, the Turkish presidency website said Thursday.

Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov met yesterday with Ambassador of Qatar Hasan Hamza Hashem. During the conversation, the parties tha bilateral trade-economic and investment cooperation and reviewed the progress of implementation of the agreements reached during the visit of Sardor Umurzakov, the chief of the Presidential administration to Doha in February this year.

The investment company UzAssets announced that it had reached a deal on privatization of ElektrQishloqqQrilish in Uzbekistan. The state-owned stake in 58.41% in the company is being sold to the Ural Energy Construction Company (UECC) from Russia. The buyer offered 93.2 billion soums for the asset ($8.14 million at the exchange rate of the Central Bank on March 15).

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and partners made a humanitarian appeal at a briefing in Geneva - $4.62 billion is needed to help Afghans in 2023, the UN website said.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. The parties discussed the ways to further develop a constructive dialogue and practical cooperation between Uzbekistan and UN structures in matters of promoting interests and protecting human rights.

Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov yesterday hosted the CEO of Turkish Cengiz Enerji, Ahmet Cengiz.

From April 1, 2023, pensioners will be entitled for a free travel during the entire operation hours of Tashkent metro, UzA reported, citing the March 15 presidential decree.

Sixth meeting of the working group on Uzbekistan's accession to the World Trade Organization is taking place on March 14-15 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade said.

Man was brought from Riga to Tashkent, who for a long time was on the international wanted list for fraud on an especially large scale, the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Uzbekistan said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will today depart for Turkey to attend the extraordinary Summit of the Organization of Turkic States devoted to Disaster and emergency management and humanitarian assistance in Ankara on March 16, the presidential press service said.

The Senate at today’s session approved the resolution on holding the referendum on the draft Constitution in a new edition on April 30. The event was broadcast live.

Andarkhon Trade Center will be built between the Fergana and Sughd regions of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Trade Center will be built on an area of 5 hectares, which will include 200 retail outlets, a bank, a canteen, a cafe, a hotel and a logistics center building. After commissioning, the center will become the main place for trade in products of enterprises of the Sughd and Fergana regions of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Deputy chief of the presidential administration, Komil Allamjonov, and the head of the administration team, Saida Mirziyoeva, met with the US ambassador to Uzbekistan, Jonathan Henick.