Wednesday, 12, February, 2025

National

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been re-elected for a second term following elections held on Sunday. According to provisional data announced today by the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Zainiddin Nizamhodjaev, 80.1% of voters voted for Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party. The CEC declared him as the president-elect.

The United States of America shipped another 273,780 doses of Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines to Uzbekistan, announced the Uzbek Ambassador to the United States, Javlon Vakhobov on his Twitter page.

Preparations to tackle the legacy of former uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan can begin, following the signing of a grant agreement today between the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA) and the government of Uzbekistan.

The Special Coordinator of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian MP Reinhold Lopatka, who is in charge of the OSCE short-term observer mission in the presidential elections in Uzbekistan, shared his views on the election campaign and the voting process with journalists. As an observer, he visited a number of polling stations in Tashkent.

Mark Reese, the author of the translation of the novel "The Bygone Days " by Abdulla Qodiri said that the promised honorarium on behalf of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had not been paid after five months. He wrote about this in a series of Twitter posts addressed to the President of Uzbekistan.

On October 18, another batch of 526.5 thousand doses of Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was delivered to Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Health said.

The State Assets Management Agency unveiled the plan to attract a specialized entity to develop a Master plan for further privatization and operation of the park at the Tashkent City business district, the agency said.

Tehran will host a meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighboring countries on October 27. The statement came from Said Khatibzadeh, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Members of the Uzbek Cabinet of Ministers and the members of the caretaker government of Afghanistan held talks in Termez on October 16, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The first private airline Qanot Sharq in Uzbekistan From October 14 launched twice-a-week Tashkent to Moscow route on A320-200. The aircraft, which arrived from Tashkent, landed at Vnukovo airport, where it was greeted with a water arch, Aviaport.ru reported.

Memorandums of understanding and cooperation were entered into between and the Caspian ports of Aktau and Kuryk, as well as with the dry port of Khorgos following working visits In August of this year, Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.

The Legislative Chamber of at a plenary session on Monday passed amendments the Basic Guarantees of the President's Activities Law that establish the president's distinctive signs - a sign and a standard (flag).

The construction of an airport in Sokh district of Fergana province has been completed, the provincial governor’s office said. It was built on the site of a former airfield.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Maier held talks in Uzbekistan on border security, announced U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum said on his Twitter page.

A televised debate will take place between representatives of presidential candidates in Uzbekistan at 17:00 on October 19. As the National TV and Radio Company reported, the debates will be aired on the channels Uzbekistan 24, Uzbekistan, Yoshlar, Tashkent, Mahalla and Madaniyat va ma'rifat.

A Taliban delegation led by the Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi arrived in Uzbekistan on October 16, the delegation member Inamulla Samangani said on his Twitter page.

Renault will launch production and sales activities in Uzbekistan together with the partner company Roodell, the company said. Jan Ptacek, the CEO of Renault for Russia and the CIS, said that the presence on the market implies a long-term project for the local assembly of Renault cars and the development of a dealer network.

The first plane with humanitarian aid from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for Afghanistan arrived in Termez on October 15, UNHCR said on its Twitter page. The aircraft arrived from the UN Logistics Center in Dubai.

The Tax Committee disclosed taxes paid by international e-service companies in Uzbekistan. In January-September 2021, these companies paid more than 15.2 billion soums, or US$ 1.4 million to the budget: Facebook - 7.6 billion soums, Google Commerce Limited - 4.6 billion soums, Apple - 2.2 billion soums, Netflix - 331 million soums, Yandex - 256 million soums, Booking.com - 205 million soums, Huawei - 81 million soums.

Today the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over medical equipment to healthcare facilities in Ferghana to assist the province in its fight against tuberculosis (TB).