President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the ways to further advance the bilateral comprehensive relations of strategic partnership ties and projects on Tuesday.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev landed in Berlin on May 2. The visit began with talks with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the presidential press service reported today.

Uzbekistan wants to localize production semiconductor modules for SIM cards, ID cards, bank cards, household appliances and even cars in cooperation with the German Infoneon Technologies.

Uzbekistan's IT sector is showing record growth rates. In particular, statistics for the Q1 of 2023 show that the IT sector has maintained positive dynamics.

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Meeting was held in Uzbekistan at the end of April to form an interdepartmental working group on the safety of tailings and the prevention of accidental water pollution. Uzbekistan will become the third country in the Central Asia (after Kazakhstan and Tajikistan) to officially create such a working group, the UN press service said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the Secretary General of the CIS, Sergei Lebedev, who arrived as the chief of a observer mission of the constitutional referendum.

The Afghan leadership is pursuing a policy course that contributes to strengthening security not only in the country, but also in the region, and there are no threats to the countries of Central Asia from the territory of Afghanistan.

The new Uzbek Ambassador to the United States of America, Furqat Sidiqov, presented his credentials to the US President Joe Biden on May 1, the ambassador announced on his Twitter page.

The constitutional Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan Law, which was approved at the referendum on April 30, took effect on May 1, from the day the results of the referendum were announced by the Central Election Commission.

Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had a telephone conversation on May 1, the Uzbek presidential press service said.

On April 26, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on cooperation between the UN and the Council of Europe, which mentions Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

The Senate will convene for its fortieth session on May 3, the press service of the Senate said. At the session, the senators are scheduled to discuss two packages of amendments to the Code of Administrative Liability, as well as changes to the legislation to ensure the inviolability of funds in bank accounts of businesses.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Public Debt Bill into Law. The law has established the powers of state bodies in the field of public debt management. The Ministry of Economy and Finance is assigned as the body responsible for public debt management.

Financial model of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project will be approved during the visit of the President of Kyrgyzstan to Beijing on May 17-19. The project’s estimated cost is at US$ 3-5 billion.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and will pay a visit to this country on May 2-3, the presidential press service said.

CEO of Uzbekistan Airports company Rana Joraeva held talks with the vice president of Oman Air Khalid Abdulwahab al Balushi.

Turnout at the constitutional referendum held on Sunday, according to provisional info, was at 84.54%, announced at a briefing by the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Zainiddin Nizamkhojaev on Monday.

The Agency for External Labor Migration denied the increase in the number of Uzbek labor migrants in Russia, as stated by the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov at the second Tashkent Investment Forum. Reshetnikov said that the number of Uzbek citizens coming to work in Russia has quadrupled in seven years.

Within the framework of the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition program, Mercy Corps in partnership with the Agency for Preschool Education under the Ministry of Preschool and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan organized the set-up of reading corners in 58 state preschools in Surkhandarya region and the Republic of Karakalpakstan.