Uzbekistan and the World Bank will prepare and adopt a new five-year partnership program. An agreement on this was reached at a meeting of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with a the Vice President Anna Bjerde, the presidential press service said. The previous partnership strategy between Uzbekistan and the WB was in effect from 2016 to 2020.

A new batch of 500,000 doses of ZF-UZ-VAC2001 coronavirus vaccine was delivered from China to Tashkent on Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Health said.

The Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan (CEC) proposed to create an advisory council of heads of electoral bodies of the CIS countries, the CEC said.

On May 18, at the plenary meeting of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, a special resolution proposed by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev was unanimously adopted on declaring the Aral Sea region as a zone of environmental innovations and technologies, the press service of the Foreign Ministry.

The MPs of the Legislative Chamber at a session on May 18 conceptually passed in the first reading the Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the lower house reported.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have settled all technical aspects of the multiple-entry Silk Road tourist visa, with domestic procedures remaining, Deputy PM/Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov told RIA Novosti.

The Chilonzor and Uzbekistan lines of the Tashkent metro will temporarily operate on a new schedule from May 21.

Today another batch of 1 million doses of the ZF-UZ-VAC2001 coronavirus vaccine was delivered to Tashkent from China, the Ministry of Health said.

On May 17, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on measures to improve the national system of technical regulation, standardization, certification and metrology, the presidential press service said in a statement.

On May 14, a joint communiqué was signed in New York on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Uzbekistan and the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dunyo news agency said in a statement.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, during a conversation with residents of Tepakurgon mahalla of Uchtepa district of Tashkent on May 14, commented on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The People's Artist of Uzbekistan, the artistic director of Diydor theater-studio Bakhodir Yuldashev died aged 75, the Uzbekistan Cinematography Agency reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council this week, the spokesman to the presdent Sherzod Asadov said at a briefing on Monday.

The Investigation Department under the Andijan province police department is conducting an investigation into the complaint of a 20-year-old resident of the Andijan province about gang rape by six men, the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan.

An audio recording surfaced on social media, which refers to a police scheme called "Beard", within which individuals with beards are to be identified, and to be photographed before and after shaving.

Officers of the State Security Service, together with other departments, arrested several officials red-handed while receiving a bribe, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel reported.

The Environmental Protection Committee, which issued permits to kill two brown bears, revoked its permit for the second after one bear was killed.

On May 13, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the presidential press service said.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Zavkizod Zavki Amin.

Uzbekistan welcomes the announcement in Afghanistan of a three-day truce on the occasion of the holy holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.