St. Petersburg will host the informal CIS summit on December 28. Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russia President confirmed the preparation of a summit in person of the leaders of the CIS countries in St. Petersburg, Vedomosti said.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Almalyk and got acquainted with the progress of the $ 5.12 billion Yoshlik-1 field development project, the presidential press service said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to support low-income groups of the population and further strengthen social protection Decree.

On December 21, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a govt meeting on land registration and the formation of state cadastres. “Frankly speaking, in the last 30 years, land accounting has not been established in Uzbekistan. There is no responsibility or accountability. In Uzbekistan, neither parliament oversaw, no one monitored, no one controlled,” the head of state said.

UzAssets Investment company under the State Asset Management Agency announced its plan to sell the Hyatt Regency Tashkent hotel through a tender.

The Director of Anti-Corruption Agency Akmal Burkhanov at a meeting of the Senate Committee on December 21 said when the system will be launched for declaring income and property by civil servants in Uzbekistan.

Sogdiana Trans (a Uzbekistan Railways subsidiary) plans to increase the volume of cargo transportation from Afghanistan, including to the CIS countries, the company said.

Strong winds were observed today in the afternoon in some districts of Kashkadarya province, which raised dust into the air. In this regard, the traffic police of the Interior Ministry asked the drivers to be careful due to the poor visibility and to observe the speed limit and distance.

US$ 7 million, which were provided by the Asian Development Bank for water supply project in the Khavast district, were embezzled. This was reported by the Syrdarya province governor Gofurjon Mirzaev during his year-end address.

Fergana province governor Khairulla Bozorov announced a new experiment in the province. Now officials and citizens will get 500,000 soums, or US$ 45 for each kilogram of weight they lose.

The State Security Service reported on stopping illegal sale of land plots in the Tashkent, Syrdarya, Namangan and Samarkand provinces on Monday.

A press conference was held at the Information and Mass Communications Agency under the Presidential Administration on December 20, 2021 at 16-00, which aimed at informing about the ongoing process of selling the non-core assets of Avtosanoat Invest LLC. Q&A session was organized at the end of the press conference.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Establishment of additional days off during celebration of official dates and moving days off in 2022 Decree Monday.

Uzbekistan remains the only country in Central Asia that has not been added to the PayPal system, the Minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications Sherzod Shermatov expressed his opinion on this issue.

More than twenty years ago the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security reaffirmed the importance of the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for maintaining and promoting peace and security. UNSCR 1325 was the first resolution to link women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev proposed to upgrade the ties between Uzbekistan and South Korea to the level of alliance ties, announced the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov.

On December 19, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov attended the third meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the India-Central Asia Dialogue in New Delhi, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) held a capstone event to mark the achievements made by its Local Health System Sustainability (LHHS) COVID-19 response activity. LHSS, which was implemented by Abt Associates Incorporated., and launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. The LHSS activity supported a coordinated national emergency response led by the Ministry of Health and helped build the resilience of the health system against future shocks.

Uzbekistan will commence works on the trans-Afghan railway project in the spring of 2022, the Sputnik Afghanistan reported on Sunday.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations in a statment confirmed reports surfaced on social networks that on December 19, at 5:03 am, two electric locomotives collided near the Angren coal mine of the UzbekCoal company in Tashkent province.