On February 15, Uzbekhydroenergo and K-water Corporation, the largest water corporation in the Republic of Korea, held bilateral talks on the joint implementation of the new Khojakent Hydrostorage power plant (HSPP) project to be built in Uzbekistan.

At the Oybek border post, customs officers and border guards detained a freight truck en route from an unnamed neighboring country to Russia, the State Customs Committee said.

Uzbek Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov held consultations with Senior Scientific Advisor of the US Geological Survey (USGS) Ingrid Verstraten, who announced the plans to visit by U.S. experts from April to June 2022 as part of previously reached agreements, Dunyo news agency reported.

Another $10 million worth of assets, criminally acquired by the daughter of the late president Islam karimov, Gulnara Karimova, have been returned to Uzbekistan from France, Sevara Urinbayeva, press secretary of the Ministry of Justice, said.

The President of Uzbekistan approved the amount of monetary rewards for the medalists of Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.

Uzbekistan Airways receives the delivery of the first Airbus A321LR long-haul aircraft, the Ministry of Transport said. Reportedly, Uzbekistan Airways has become the first operator in Central Asia to own this model of Airbus.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed to develop Uzbekistan’s electric vehicles industry development strategy, said on Monday the presidential press service following the government meeting on the development of the Uzbek car industry.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a government meeting on February 14 instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to develop a draft resolution on reducing customs duties on car imports by 2 times within three days, president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On February 10, the Agreement between Uzbekistan and Spain on cooperation in the fight against crime, signed on November 5, 2013 in the city of Madrid, took effect, Dunyo news agency reported.

At the negotiations between the Uzbek Deputy Minister of Transport A. Muminov and the Kazakh Deputy Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development B. Kamaliev discussed promising areas of cooperation, as well as issues related to improving the conditions for the transportation of goods.

The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Kiev, through its Telegram channel, issued a statement to fellow countrymen who are in Ukraine, Dunyo reported.

7 hydropower projects with a total capacity of 173 MW will be launched in 2022б the Ministry of Energy said. In 2022 the following hydropower projects will be implemented:

322 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 13, the Ministry of Health said. 122 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 56 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted members of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States at the Vahdetdin residence in Istanbul on Sunday.

On February 11, the FSB received two e-mail from a man stating that his 44-year-old accomplice had planted backpacks with explosives in diplomatic missions. Examination by cynologists at all buildings found no explosives, with no evacuation conducted.

According to the State Statistics Committee, as of February 1, 2022, the number of foreign-invested enterprises registered in Uzbekistan topped 13.8 thousand, of which 13.4 thousand are operating.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today chaired a government meeting dedicated to road safety based on the Safe and Smooth Road principle.

625 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 10, the Ministry of Health said. 286 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 1117 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province, 45 - in Samarkand province, 25 - in Khorezm province.

On February 10, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, during his trip to Samarkand province, chaired a government meeting, the presidential press service said.

The Kazakh Prime Minister will today land in Uzbekistan, the Nigoh telegram channel close to the Presidential Administration said. A government delegation led by Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhon Smailov will pay a one-day visit to Uzbekistan on 11 February.