Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov held a telephone conversation with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas.

Ministries, departments, governor and mayor offices in Uzbekistan have been instructed to take all necessary steps to save and improve the efficiency of budget-provided funds in 2025 based on the principle of " cost effectiveness and stability". This is envisaged by the president’s December 25 Measures to ensure the performance of the 2025 state budget Decree.

Uzbek Ambassador to Pakistan Alisher Tukhtayev said that the two-way trade between the two countries could reach $1 billion in the coming years, Minute Mirror said.

On December 26, Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov signed Measures to further develop the e-commerce in Uzbekistan Resolution. According to the Resolution, only legal entities that are registered in Uzbekistan can operate as e-commerce operators (e-trading platforms/marketplaces, order aggregators, and digital streaming services). 

Video footage has been circulating on social networks showing children dressed in light national clothing, dancing and entertaining officials in a public event in below zero temperature. The Children's Ombudsperson's Office commented on the situation.

Uzbekistan passport ranked 68th in the updated Passport Index, the popular global ranking of the world's passports prepared by Arton Capital, the global advisory for residence and citizenship solutions.

Reports surfaced on social networks that a little girl was seriously injured due to the fault of her nanny. The Children's Ombudsperson's Office has studied the situation and taken it under control.

In an interview to the Foreign Ministry’s Dunyo news agency Alberto Turkstra, project manager of the Diplomatic World Institute think tank shared his thoughts on the Uzbekistan-EU ties in 2024.

Private airline Qanot Sharq announced the cancellation of a number of flights from January 20 to March 6 due to "operational necessity".

Uzbek Ambassador Alisher Tukhtayev met with the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Jamil Ahmed. During the meeting, the parties discussed in detail the ways to improve interbank payments in order to boost the two-way trade.

Uzgidromet posted Tashkent city weather forecast for business week. On January 7, humid and cold air from the Caspian Sea regions will move to Uzbekistan.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed the Additional measures to improve state control in the field of industrial, radiation, and nuclear safety Decree, outlining plans to join international nuclear safety treaties, and establish new inspections bodies within the Committee for Industrial, Radiation, and Nuclear Safety.

There are reports circulating on social media about metapneumovirus infection and that this infection was more dangerous than COVID-19.

On December 4, the Andijan city criminal court issued a verdict against an Uzbek man who was had been conscripted by the Russia army in the invasion of Ukraine.

Three new automatic air quality monitoring stations have been launched in Tashkent as part of the joint Automation of Air Pollution Monitoring project by Zamin Foundation, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Agency of Hydrometeorological Service (Uzgidromet).

New railway project between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan due to be completed in 2027 has been launched, the press service of the Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) said.

Marches of military units of the Ministry of Defense and the National Guard took place along the main streets of Tashkent to mark the 33rd anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and Defenders of the Motherland Day.

Man posted a video footage of himself accelerating to 310 km/h on a BMW S1000 RR sportbike in Tashkent and posted the video on social networks. He was brought to administrative liability, said the spokesman to the Traffic police unit of the Tashkent city police department, Kakhramon Khudoyberganov.

A young man serving in the engineering and construction battalion of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Nukus city of Karakalpakstan attacked five people, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent condolences to the US President Joseph Biden over numerous casualties after the terrorist attack in New Orleans, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.