Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov hosted the UK’s Ambassador Tim Torlot and exchanged in detail views on the bilateral ties and the ways to advance them.

Reports surfaced on social networks about the disappearance of the blogger Abduqodir Muminov yesterday on February 8, which said that unknown people opened his apartment with their key and seized his flashes, recorders and laptop.

$1 billion will be allocated for introduction of renewable energy sources in Tashkent, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at a government meeting on Wednesday, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Delegation of Afghanistan led by the chief of Afghan railway authority, Bakht Rahman Sharafat departed for Uzbekistan. According to the press service, it is planned to complete the work acceptance for Hairatan-Mazar-i-Sharif railway to the Afghan authorities.

The president signed a decree approving Preferential Trade Treaty between Uzbekistan and Pakistan. This Treaty was signed on March 3, 2022 in Islamabad.

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Malaysia Airlines is set to resume the Kuala Lumpur to Tashkent flights. The first charter flight on Airbus A330 is scheduled for March 1, 2023.

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, with the support of the Government of Uzbekistan, today sent 12 trucks with over 48,000 blankets through the International Multifunctional Transport and Logistics Hub in Termez, Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan to provide life-saving assistance to forcibly displaced persons and other vulnerable people in Afghanistan during harsh winter.

More lenient penalties for illegal importation, sale, purchase, possession and use of drones could be adopted. This is stipulated by the draft 2023 state program, posted for public input.

The draft State Program for 2023 provides for bringing the share of governmental services provided through the Governmental Services Centre (GSC) and the my.gov.uz portal to 73%, and reducing fees. All services related to the allocation of subsidies from the budget to individuals and legal entities shall be provided through a single portal.

The Republican Center of Hydrometeorology announced the Tashkent weather forecast for February 8, Wednesday. The Tashkent weather will be uncertain, with rain in the afternoon and westward 5-10 m/s wind, which may increase to 15-17 m/s. The temperature will be 4-6 degrees warm at night and 12-14 degrees warm during the daytime.

On February 10-11, Samarkand will host the Travel Bazaar 2023 tourism forum with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the ministry said.

Speed limit is expected to be reduced from 70 to 60 km/h not only in cities, but also in all settlements from June 1, 2023. This is included in the draft state program.

Slovenian government delegation led by Deputy PM/ Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon will land in Uzbekistan on a visit on Tuesday.

One Uzbek national died in the province of Malatya as a result of the powerful earthquake in Turkey, with four people declared missing, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

The Traffic Safety Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs set the goal of reducing the number of road accidents in the country and deaths in them by 15% in 2023. This was discussed at a meeting chaired by the department chief, Deputy Interior Minister Bekmurod Abdullayev.

Officials of the Uzbek Embassy in Spain met with the head of the international department of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Jaime Montalvo, Dunyo reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today spoke to the leader of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over the telephone, the presidential press service said in a statement.

Uzbekistan will send humanitarian aid to Turkiye for victims of the earthquake and a group of rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations to help eliminate the consequences of the natural disaster. The relevant order was signed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Russians travelled abroad 24.3 million times in 2022, with arrivals to Uzbekistan increasing by 99% during the year, Novaya Gazeta. Europe reported citing data of the Russian FSB.