The UN Deputy Secretary General, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Wali will visit Uzbekistan in November. An agreement on this was reached in Vienna during her talks with the Chairperson of the Senate of Uzbekistan, Tanzila Narbaeva, the Senate reported.

On September 9, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on expanding support for gifted youth studying and researching at Uzbek universities.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov attended the ministerial online meeting on Afghanistan on September 8, the Foreign Ministry said.

More than 1.2 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and more than 600 thousand doses of AstraZeneca will be delivered to Uzbekistan in the coming days, the Ministry of Health said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivered a message to the Liberal Democratic Party's (UzLiDeP) congress today. Highlights:

At today’s X Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP), Shavkat Mirziyoyev, underscoring the reforms over the five years of his presidency, unveiled his election program entitled the "Strategy for the New Uzbekistan".

The Taliban movement appreciated Uzbekistan's readiness to establish cooperation with the new government in Kabul. Earlier it was reported that Uzbekistan welcomed the creation of an interim government in Afghanistan.

On September 8, Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, the presidential press service said.

Qatar Airways has received permit to operate regular Uzbekistan flights, the Civil Aviation Agency said in a statement on Monday.

The number of fully vaccinated people against coronavirus in Uzbekistan surpassed 2.5 million, the Ministry of Health said. This is at 11.87% of the total number of people over 18 to be vaccinated - 21.45 million people.

The forced imposition of own religious views on others is prohibited in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday.

Uzbekistan welcomes the creation of an interim government in Afghanistan, stated the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yusup Kabuljanov in a statement.

The Ministry of Energy announced the launch of call for bids for the construction of three PV plants with a total capacity of 500 MW in three provinces of the country. The project is being implemented with the support of the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank).

The pressures on water resources in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan is critical. In particular, Uzbekistan uses 169% of its water reserves, and Turkmenistan - 144%. This was reported by experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO.

Uzbekistan has suspended issuing electronic visas since September 6, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The reason is the maintenance work on the E-visa.gov.uz system. The date of their completion has not been specified.

Warsaw will provide Tashkent with 250,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the Polish daily “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” (DGP) wrote on Monday. In August, Uzbeks allowed Polish military planes into their airspace during the evacuation of Poland’s collaborators from Afghanistan.

The number of voters who are to take part in the upcoming presidential elections has surpassed 21.2 million, announced the chairman of the Central Election Commission Zainiddin Nizamhodzhaev at an international conference in Tashkent on September 6.

Military and air defense units of the South-Western Special Military District are conducting training sessions at the Termez field training ground in the Surkhandarya province, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry of Health reported of a daily 597 people diagnosed with coronavirus in Uzbekistan yesterday.  "As of September 6, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 161,108 (+597)," the report said.

On September 6, the Deputy PM/Minister of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Jamshid Kuchkarov met with Asian Development Bank Vice President for Private Sector and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Asoka Lavasa, the Ministry said.