The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan issued a statement strongly condemning the armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27.

Azerbaijani flagship airline, Azal launched Baku to Urganch flights. Flights are to be operated once a week - on Saturdays. Urganch became the fourth city, after Tashkent, Samarkand and Ferghana, where this airline started flying.

Gas explosion occurred in a four-story residential building in microdistrict 22nd of Nukus city in an apartment on the fourth floor on Sunday, at about 16:15.

During the state visit of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Kyrgyzstan, protocols were exchanged on amending and supplementing the intergovernmental agreement on trips of citizens of the two countries, signed by the governments of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on October 3, 2006.

Project of waste-to energy plant from Akhangaran and Maidontol landfills has been launched in Tashkent province, the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources said.

Today, on January 27, Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed a Declaration on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries following the talks in Bishkek, the presidential press service said.

Today on January 27, the Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov held talks at the Ala-Archa state residence in Bishkek, the presidential press service said.

Former Tashkent mayor Jakhongir Ortiqhodjaev resigned from his city council deputy mandate. The decision was made by the city deputies council today. This was reported by two independent sources, including one of the deputies who attended the meeting.

Director of the Human.uz news publication site Khurshid Daliev (also author of Muxbir Daliev blog) and the editor-in-chief Muslim Mirzajonov were arretsed by persons who introduced themselves as “law enforcement officers”. This was reported by the publication in its Telegram channel.

The influence of the cold anticyclone’s periphery on Uzbekistan will continue to gradually weaken on Friday and weekends, Uzhydromet reported.

In Tashkent, Chief of Single Customer Service company under the mayor’s office, which operates as a customer for construction of facilities financed from budgetary funds, has been replaced. This is provided for by the Jan. 25 order of the acting Tashkent mayor Bakhtiyor Rakhmonov.

Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan signed an investment deal for the Kambarata HPP-1 project in Jalal-Abad province of Kyrgyzstan, the Uzbek Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade said.

After lengthy negotiations, Humo and Uzcard payment systems agreed to integrate, announced the governor of the Central Bank, Mamarizo Nurmuratov at a press conference today.

Corpses of a woman, 63, and her niece, 17, with traces of violent death were found in Khojaabad district of Andijan province in the courtyard of one of the houses on January 25, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan.

Restrictions on business hours of retailers and service points, shopping and entertainment venues and parks In Tashkent, introduced in mid-January aimed at saving power and gas, are being lifted. This was announced by the Tashkent city mayor’s office.

Today, Ambassador of the European Union in Uzbekistan Her Excellency Charlotte Adriaen, and the UNDP Resident Representative in Uzbekistan Mrs Matilda Dimovska visited Termez to open the newly established EU Knowledge Centre.

In 2022 the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested almost US$ 900 million (€839 million) in 26 projects in Uzbekistan, making it the leading recipient of its funding in Central Asia for the third year running. Investments were made in sectors ranging from renewable energy to banking.

In 2022, the Uzbekistan poverty rate drop from 17% to 14%, Shavkat Mirziyoev said at the government meeting. He has set goals for 2023 to cut poverty, through creation of 2 million permanent jobs before the year-end.

On the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Tashkent, Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov met with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

The Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan issued a statement on the Roadmap signed with Gazprom. “The goal of the Roadmap signed with Gazprom is to supply required quantities of natural gas to the domestic market. There is no threat of a possible handover of the gas transportation grid to someone or let alone our sovereignty,” the official statement said.