President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting on December 14 proposed to introduce Tax Free - the VAT refund to foreign citizens for purchased goods when leaving Uzbekistan in Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Uzbekistan ranked 82nd in the pandemics preparedness index released by the U.S.-based the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, with research by Economist Impact, measured the capacities of 195 countries to prepare for epidemics and pandemics.

The State Industrial Safety Committee and the Department of Radiation and Nuclear Safety, which is part of it, at a press conference, announced the amount of radioactive waste accumulated in Uzbekistan during the development of uranium deposits during the Soviet times.

Today the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, trucked humanitarian goods from Termez, Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan. The delivery is part of UNHCR’s aid effort to Afghanistan and a massive operation to provide life-saving aid to the people of Afghanistan.

An auction for the site, where the military town No. 60 in the Chilanzar district used to be located, took place on the E-auksion trading platform.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade S. Umurzakov met with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu.

The draft Approval of qualification requirements for personnel required for operation of nuclear power plants Resolution was posted for public input on Tuesday by UzAtom Agency.

Tashkent hosted the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Partnership Dialogue between Uzbekistan and the United States of America.

55% of Uzbek adults have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus as of December 11, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.

The international literary festival, Open Eurasian Literary Festival & Book Forum (OEBF), which this year marks its ten year anniversary, unites cultural and artistic figures, cultural and charitable organizations as well as art connoisseurs, allowing them to build cultural bridges between East and West. For ten years, creative people from 85 countries, including famous modern writers, have participated in it. OEBF has already been held in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Sweden, Belgium and the UK.

Eco House-Group received at least three government contracts for the construction of medical facilities without calling for bids. The contracts' total price is over 403 billion soums. However, according to the Public Procurement Law, contracts worth over 6.8 billion soums cannot be awarded without a tender.

Most nationals who arrived in Russia for employment in the period from January to September of this year were from Uzbekistan (3,054,180), Tajikistan (1,597,481), Kyrgyzstan (623,465), Armenia (298,801 people) and Azerbaijan (185,752), the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

The president’s draft Establishment of additional days-off during the celebration of official dates and moving days off in 2022 decree was published on Monday.

Today, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu, who arrived in Tashkent to attend the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Partnership Dialogue between Uzbekistan and the United States, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Ferganaazot, producing mineral nitrogen fertilizers, defoliants and cellulose acetates, will be privatized. The State Assets Management Agency unveiled plan to sell 99.02% stake in Ferganaazot.

On December 10, 200 thousand doses of single-component COVID vaccine Sputnik Light was delivered to Uzbekistan from Russia, the Ministry of Health said, with 7,500 doses delivered earlier.

On December 10, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the online meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. The meeting was chaired by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev. It was also attended by the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the presidents of Russia - Vladimir Putin, of Belarus - Alexander Lukashenko, of Kyrgyzstan - Sadyr Zhaparov, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Cuba, an observer country at the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Miguel Bermudez and Chairman Collegiums of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich.

The Afghan Kam Air will resume Kabul to Tashkent passenger flights from December 14. “We have good news - we are resuming flights from December 14,” the airline’s representative office in Tashkent said.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially launched the Quality Club, which will provide a mechanism for continuous dialogue between the Agency for the Development of Pharmaceutical Industry and local pharmaceutical manufacturers to discuss updates, challenges, and solutions related to medicines and medical products regulation in Uzbekistan.

Tashkent will today host the maiden meeting of the Strategic Partnership Dialogue between Uzbekistan and the United States, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.