On September 6, Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov met in Brussels with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell.

The city of Randolph, New Jersey (USA) hosted an event dedicated to the 31st anniversary of Uzbekistan’s state independence and the official opening of the diaspora organization Uzbek Society of America.

20% discount will apply for Tashkent to Dushanbe passenger train service from September 6. The relevant agreement was reached between Uzbekistan Airways and Rokhi Ohani Tojikiston to reduce the ticket fares for international passenger train service between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Cyber security forum of the SCO kicked off today in Tashkent. The organizers of the forum are the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President, the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies, together with the executive committee of the regional anti-terrorist structure of the SCO.

Cooperation with South Korean local police departments on crime prevention will be developed. Officials of the Uzbek Embassy f in Seoul met with Song Pyong Jin, the officer in charge of the International Cooperation Department of the Changwon City Police Department, the administrative center of Gyeongsan-namdo Province, Dunyo reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will personally attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan. This was announced by his spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

On August 30-31, the Global Infrastructure Cooperation Conference (GICC 2022) was held in Seoul, South Korea. The event was attended by the First Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chairman of the Board of Uzsuvtaminot Sohib Saifnazarov, who briefed the participants about the work and projects implemented in the field of drinking water supply and sanitation in the country in recent years. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Uzbekistan next week to attend in the SCO summit in Samarkand on September 15-16.

Uzbekistan ranked 86th in an annual Global Peace Index this year, finishing at 86 among 163 countries, while Iceland remained at the top position, according to a report by an international think tank. 

On August 31, 1991 at the extraordinary session of the Supreme Council was adopted the Declaration of the State Independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan Resolution in Tashkent. By the same Resolution, September 1 was declared Independence Day, as well as a day off.

Share of Uzbek oil in the total refining at the Fergana Oil Refinery (FOR) has been brought up to almost 90 percent. This increase was possible thanks to an increase in the oil production by Sanoat Energetika Guruhi (SEG), which owns 103 fields in Uzbekistan since the end of 2019.

Ceremony of handing over Romanian books will be held on September 6, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. in the lobby of the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi.

On August 31, Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the Uzbek people on Independence Day and told how the New Uzbekistan would look. Shavkat Mirziyoyev added that "the new Constitution, the main author and creator of which is the people, will serve as a solid legal basis to this end."

Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khodjaev met with the Russian Deputy PM Alexei Overchuk in Moscow last Thursday.

In early September, the U.S. Treasury Department included Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and a number of other states in the list of countries through which goods, the import of which is limited by sanctions, could be reaching Russia and Belarus.

Uzbekistan sent humanitarian aid to Pakistan, where population suffered from severe floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains, Dunyo news agency reported.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, the presidential press service said.

The Syrdarya river is one of the largest water arteries of Uzbekistan that flows into the Aral Sea. The Ferghana Valley is located within the Syrdarya river basin. According to scholars, there are more than one hundred (100) small rivers in the Ferghana Valley, which are tributaries of the Syrdarya. Many of them are transboundary since they are originating in the neighboring countries of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. In the longer term, shifting precipitation patterns, increasing temperatures and dry spells are predicted to lead to water stress in the region.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over 33 high-quality, internationally-sourced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks and teacher’s guides to the Ministry of Public Education for use during the 2022-2023 academic year. The Ministry of Public Education printed the new textbooks for over 6.5 million students, ensuring that all pupils have access to high-quality learning materials and that all of Uzbekistan’s EFL teachers have high-quality teacher’s guides to support instruction.

On August 30, the President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev met with the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum, who is ending his posting to Uzbekistan.