The European Union has granted 142 trillion UZS  (EUR 11 Million) to the government’s budget on 28th May 2021 for the support of the strategic reforms benefiting the agri-food sector and rural livelihoods in Uzbekistan.

The President of Uzbekistan will pay an official visit to Tajikistan on June 10-11, the spokesman to the President Sherzod Asadov announced today at a briefing on Monday.

On June 5, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov met with Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, the MIFT press service reported.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded a 12-day mission to Uzbekistan to review its development of infrastructure for a nuclear power programme. The Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) was carried out at the invitation of the Government of Uzbekistan, the Agency said in a statement.

Foreigners and stateless persons who live in Uzbekistan will be issued ID-cards. This is provided for by the Legal status of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Republic of Uzbekistan Law.

On June 8-13, the Ergaki Military-Sports Training Center in the Sayan Mountains of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, will host a joint drill of the Special Forces of Uzbekistan and the Russian Central Military District.

The First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Jürgen Rigterink, will lead a delegation of senior management to Uzbekistan from 7 to 9 June 2021 for meetings with the authorities and business representatives.

Following the results of the voting of the UNWTO Regional Commission for Europe, representatives from Uzbekistan and Hungary were unanimously elected as vice-presidents of the 24th session of the UNWTO General Assembly, which will be held in Morocco in October this year.

Uzhydromet told about the weather for the weekend. Reportedly, in recent years, abnormally hot weather has been observed across the country, surpassing normal values ​​for the beginning of summer by 7-10 °C.

On June 3, Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, the presidential press service said.

The Muslim Board of Uzbekistan has announced a fatwa on the Traffic Rules, which are considered social rules under Sharia law and are binding, the Board's press service said in a statement.

Dilshodbek, a migrant laborer from the eastern Uzbek city of Qoqand, has worked in Russia for more than a decade. But this year he is going to neighboring Kazakhstan instead.

A total of 55,102 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Uzbekistan on June 2. According to the Ministry of Health, 23,789 of them received the first jab, 30,339 - the second jab and 974 the third one.

Uzbekistan delegation, headed by the Minister of Health Abdukhakim Khadzhibaev, arrived in South Korea to study the Korean experience and technologies for the construction of oncological hospitals, Dunyo news agency reported.

Uzbekistan ranked 94th in terms of fixed broadband speeds and 124th for mobile internet speeds globally in April, internet testing and analysis platform Ookla said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev expressed his opinion about Afghanistan during his visit to Surkhandarya. “There is no such opportunity in other provinces as in Surkhandarya. Which province has a place like Boysun? Sherabad?

The Uzbek Ambassador Bahrom Aloev presented his credentials to the Iraqi President Barham Salih Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said.

The governments of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have reached an agreement on the admission of Tajik citizens to military schools in Uzbekistan.

At a meeting with journalists in Surkhandarya province, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke about the importance of building the Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railway, its economic, geographical, political benefits and other details of the project.

On June 2, 2021 the U.S. Embassy Tashkent delivered approximately $14,000 of loaned equipment to the Republican Center of Seismic Forecasting Monitoring (RCSFM) under the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan.