The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Afghanistan, saying that "Uzbekistan is closely following the development of the situation" in Afghanistan.

Debt issued by Uzbekistan is weakening, as emerging market investors braced themselves for the fallout from the crisis in Afghanistan.

In February, the head of state signed the Measures for the further development of domestic and pilgrim tourism in the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree which set additional non-business days for the year 2021.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday, the presidential press service reported.

The Yangi Uzbekiston (New Uzbekistan) newspaper will publish an interview with the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on August 17, said the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov at a briefing on Monday.

Russia does not see threats from the Taliban for the Central Asian states, stated the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov on the First Channel.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country with four vehicles and a helicopter full of cash, the Russian embassy in Kabul said Monday.

22 military aircraft and 24 helicopters of Afghanistan, carrying 585 Afghan servicemen, illegally crossed the airspace of Uzbekistan on August 14-15. The aircrafts were forcibly landed at the Termez airport, the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan said on Monday.

Two of Afghanistan's most notorious regional strongmen fled on Saturday as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban and security forces abandoned the city in a headlong rush up the highway to the safety of neighbouring Uzbekistan.

Last week, Artel Electronics LLC (Artel) was delighted to welcome the Uzbek Olympic team to an event in Tashkent to thank the athletes for their achievements. In 2021, Uzbekistan’s Olympians achieved three gold medals and two bronzes, finishing higher up the medal table than any other country in Central Asia.

On August 13, 2021, JICA Uzbekistan Office, Ministry of Public Education, Scientific Research Institute for Studying the Problems and Determining the Prospects of Public Education named after A. Avloni and KEI Advanced, Inc. (Japan) signed Minutes of Meeting on JICA`s “SDGs Business Verification Survey with the Private Sector for the Introduction of a Japanese-style Academic Achievement Test Model in Uzbekistan”.  

The Deputy Minister of Energy Sherzod Khodjaev attended the first organized meeting of the energy ministers of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev invited the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to pay an official visit to Uzbekistan at any convenient time.

Another batch of AstraZeneca vaccine will be delivered to Uzbekistan tomorrow on August 14, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Joint drills with the participation of Uzbek, Russian and Tajik servicemen ended at the Harb-Maidon training ground in Tajikistan, the Uzbek Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Official Statistics Bill into Law, the Ministry of Justice reported. Official statistics consists of statistical data prepared and disseminated by the state statistical authorities and other producers of official statistics. The State Statistics Committee is the authorized state body in the field.

A few days ago, information surfaced on the social networks that the prosecutor of Kurgantepa district of Andijan province, Sardor Rajabboev, allegedly attracted employees of the district communal services department to work from spring to autumn in his house yard.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 925 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 493 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 12 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 140,210 (+925)," the report said.

The President signed the Measures to further improve system for ensuring the rights of the child decree. The document approved the proposals of the chambers of the parliament on:

On August 11, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the projects to improve drinking water supply in the Surkhandarya province, the presidential press service said.