Tuesday, 23, April, 2024

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Today, Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed. The UN delegation also included the head of the UN Economic Commission for Europe Olga Algayerova and the UN Resident Coordinator, Roli Asthana, the presidential press service said.

The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization distributed a notice on the date of the fifth meeting of the working group on Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO.

Uzbekistan and Russia increased the period of stay of citizens on a mutual basis without registration up to 15 days. This is provided for by an treaty between the governments of the two countries, which took effect on June 4, Dunyo reported.

The Ministry of Transport has issued a flight permit for Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, Uzbek Ambassador to the UAE Abdulaziz Akkulov said.

On June 2, in the afternoon in Urgench, Khorezm province, the driver of a GM Cobalt, which was standing on the side of a busy street, was brutally killed. Surveillance video footage of the incident has surfaced on social media.

Today, a new joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (MEDPR) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) was launched to strengthen the capacity of rural communities in infrastructure management in the Aral Sea region.

The President signed Ratification of an International Treaty Decree. According to the Huquqiy Akhborot (Legal Information), the Decree approved the air services treaty between the governments of Uzbekistan and Qatar.

The Transcarpathian region of Ukraine received humanitarian aid from Uzbekistan on June 6, said the head of the region, Viktor Mikita.

In April, the world's Central Banks bought 19.4 tons of gold into foreign exchange after selling 9.4 tons in March, the World Gold Council said on Tuesday.

Andijan city mayor Bahromjon Khaydarov was detained as a suspect in a criminal case of embezzlement of budget funds on a large scale, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

The Deputy Secretary-General will travel to Central Asia from 5-12 June 2022 to represent the Secretary-General at the Second International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028 in Tajikistan (7-8) and following the invitation from other countries in the region, the Deputy Secretary-General will also visit Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. 

All coronavirus restrictions for entry into Uzbekistan by air, through border railway stations and border checkpoints will be lifted as of June 10, the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage said with reference to the decision of the Republican Special Anti-Covid Commission.

On June 6, Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the work progress of the second stage of the overground ring metro line in Tashkent, the presidential press service said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today spoke to the President Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev over the telephone, the presidential press service of the head of state reported.

Spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office Khayot Shamsuddinov commented on a social media post about the death of a high school student in Uchkuprik district of Fergana province after being beaten by her father.

On the afternoon of Sunday, June 5, anonymous people again threatened with explosions at three offices of Uzbekistan Airways in St. Petersburg.

Today, UNICEF handed over urgently needed computers to the Ministry of Health to strengthen Uzbekistan’s national immunization system and the healthcare system overall.

Recently, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan Alisher Turaev met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Batsumber Munkhzhin.

The Commission on Constitutional Reform at a meeting on June 3 reviewed the proposals received to amend the Constitution. The chief of the commission, first deputy speaker of the Legislative Chamber Akmal Saidov noted that among the proposals there was a proposal to turn Uzbekistan into a parliamentary republic.

Government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister/ Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umrzakov visited Moscow on June 3-4.