On September 14, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the UK’s Minister of State for South Asia and Commonwealth Lord Tariq Ahmad, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

29-year-old judo world champion Kamoliddin Rasulov died in Tashkent after being stabbed during a conflict. Another athlete is suspected of killing him, Daryo reported citing the General Prosecutor's Office.

The United States has reached agreements with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan that these countries will allow the U.S. citizens to enter these countries from Afghanistan, announced the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday.

On September 10, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Simplifying customs procedures and further improving the organizational structure of the state customs authority Decree.

252,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine donated by the Polish government were delivered to Tashkent yesterday, UzA said.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov confirmed the departure of Afghan servicemen and other citizens from Uzbekistan.

The Ministry of Health reported of a daily 526 people diagnosed with coronavirus in Uzbekistan yesterday. Six patients died yesterday, bringing the total official number of deaths 1,159.

On September 10, Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Amendments and Addenda to Some Acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree, which has made the following changes and additions:

Uzbekistan today received the delivery of over 1.2 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health said.

Uzbek servicemen arrived in Russia’s Orenburg region on September 11 to participate in the joint drill of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Peace Mission 2021, the defense ministry said.

On September 16-17, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, said the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov at a briefing today.

U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other personnel held in an Uzbek camp for about a month began leaving the country on Sunday, one of the pilots told Reuters, under a U.S. deal that came despite Taliban demands for the return of the Afghans and their aircraft.

The Director-General of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) Lt Gen Faiz Hameed on Saturday hosted a meeting of regional intelligence chiefs on Afghanistan as the situation in the country rapidly evolves after a takeover by the Taliban nearly a month back.

The USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced plans to visit Uzbekistan, she announced in her remarks at the ceremony dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Uzbekistan's independence in Washington on September 9.

The Ministry of Health reported of a daily 687 people diagnosed with coronavirus in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of September 9, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 163,108 (+597)," the report said.

The Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Helga Schmid will visit Uzbekistan in November to attend the conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the joint implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia, the press service of the Senate said.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the newly appointed Ambassador of Latvia, Reinis Trokša, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

From September 11, Uzbekistan Airways will increase number of regular Tashkent to Bishkek flights up to three times a week, the company said on Thursday.

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.