Last year, the average monthly salary paid in Uzbekistan was at 2.7 million soums. The salaries paid by agricultural and small business entities were also taken into account. Earlier, it was said that without taking these two categories into account, the average salary in 2021 was at 3.2 million soums.

Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states will be held in Tashkent On July 28-29, Dunyo reported.

The Statistics Committee reported on Uzbekistan demographic figures. Reportedly, as of July 1, 2022, the population of the country stood at 35.6 million people, with 17.7 million females and 17.9 million males.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Tashkent, the Russian embassy in Tashkent said. At the airport, the Russian minister was welcomed by the Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov.

On July 25-27, the government delegation of Uzbekistan on labor migration paid a working visit to Israel, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

Russia handed over to Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan test systems for the detection of monkeypox, produced by the Vector scientific center, the Rospotrebnadzor reported.

19 children, left without parental care in Russia, left unattended and in need of help were brought back to Uzbekistan with the assistance of the relevant authorities.

Lieutenant General Abdusalom Azizov, chairman of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan, attended the conference of special services of the Turkic states.

By a presidential decree, Komil Allamjonov was appointed Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, announced the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

By a presidential decree, Komil Allamjonov was appointed Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, announced the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

On July 26, Tashkent hosted an international conference “Afghanistan: security and economic development”, which was attended by special envoys for Afghanistan of various countries, the closest neighbors of Afghanistan, the countries of South and Central Asia, the Middle East, the European Union, the United States, as well as a delegation of the interim government Afghanistan.

Last week, due to hot weather, electricity consumption in Uzbekistan reached a historical maximum, the press service of the Ministry of Energy reported.

At the next meeting of the Legislative Chamber, the MPs in the first reading considered the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest Bill.

President’s Envoy for Foreign Policies Abdulaziz Kamilov answered the question on the possible recognition of the Afghan caretaker government by the international community during the international conference on Afghanistan, held in Tashkent today.

The Russian Federation will open consular offices in Aktau, Grodno, Cancun and Samarkand, said the director of the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Ivan Volynkin, TASS reported.

Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev told which countries will ensure the safety of the Trans-Afghan railway project. The safety of the Termez-Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar will be jointly provided by Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The security of the project will be mainly provided by the Afghan side, while security experts from Uzbekistan and Pakistan will be involved.

The United States is ready to help stabilize the Afghan economy, and the country's government is working on the issue of unfreezing the country’s assets, the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev made remarks at the international conference on Afghanistan in which he called on the Afghan authorities to comply with the basic demands of the world community.

"Taliban’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi made remarks at the international conference on Afghanistan in Tashkent. Afghanistan is fulfilling all of the promises it had made and that it was big time for the USA to keep its promises and return the frozen money, he said. He added:

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over approximately 500,000 new, high-quality textbooks and teacher’s guides to the Ministry of Public Education today. The learning materials will be used in Grades 1-4 for Uzbek Language Arts and Mathematics instruction. The books were developed through a partnership of USAID, the Ministry of Public Education and the Republican Education Center. The new learning materials will be piloted in 919 public schools in the Namangan and Syrdarya regions during the 2022-2023 school year.