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22.49 thousand electric vehicles were imported into Uzbekistan in ten months of 2023, the Customs Committee said in a report on Monday.

The French Orano will invest up to 500 million dollars in uranium mining and processing in Uzbekistan, the Minister of Mining and Geology Bobur Islamov announced at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum.

On Monday and Tuesday, the territory of Uzbekistan will be under the influence of a warm and slightly humid air mass, Uzhydromet reported.

Tashkent will host the sixteenth summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on November 8-9, to be chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan imported nearly 300 million cubic meters of gas from Russia, the Energy Minister Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov announced at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Samarkand.

From November 8 to 10, traffic will be limited on a number of central streets of Tashkent in connection with the 16th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the capital's mayor’s office reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his remarks at the summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Astana on November 3, proposed to create a single alphabet for all Turkic countries, Tengrinews.kz at reported.

In 2024, it is planned to increase the supply of oil products from Russia to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan to 1 million tons, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said. This is more than three times the volume of oil that was planned to be imported in 2023 (300 thousand tons).

The Tashkent city appellate court completed the retrial of the case of two former officials previously convicted of having sex with inmates of an orphanage in Urgench, and issued a ruling, the Supreme Court said.

The perspectives of gas cooperation between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan is 15 years, and a long-term cooperation agreement could be entered into in mid-2024, the CEO of Gazprom, Alexey Miller said this at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum.

Chief of Navoi Free Economic Zone (FEZ) Habib Abdullaev and, CEO of FlySeeAgro of Russia Vasiliy Ptitsin, and signed a memorandum on the implementation of a 5-year investment program on "Establishing the production unit of unmanned aviation systems in Uzbekistan, FlySeeAgro said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking on November 3 at the Meeting of the Turkic Summit, quoted one of the founders of the ancient Turkic state, Bilga Hakan: “Get reborn, my Turkic people, know yourself in order to rise again!”

Uzbekistan’s human rights record will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Wednesday, 8 November 2023, in a meeting in Geneva that will be webcast live.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of France Emmanuel Macron inaugurated a new branch of the French Alliance in Samarkand.

US sanctions have been imposed on the Uzbek company Mvizion, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC) announced in a new package of sanctions.

The UN General Assembly for the 31st time adopted the Resolution calling on the United States to lift economic, commercial and financial sanctions against Cuba on Thursday.

The Russian airline Red Wings will launch regular Kazan to Tashkent flight on November 16, 2023. Flights will be operated once a week on Thursdays on SU95 aircraft.

Chief of Foreign Labor Migration Agency under the Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment hosted the director of Gera Chamber of Commerce and Industry of East Thuringia, Germany.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the Uzbekistan-France Business Forum today in Samarkand. Shavkat Mirziyoyev underscored that a new era of cooperation between Uzbekistan and France was beginning, between the countries “with great trust and openness a great foundation is being laid for further development.”

The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov attended the Forum of Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian States and the Secretary General of the OSCE in Ashgabat.