The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov held talks with his Iranian counterpart, Hussein Amir Abdullahiyan in Tehran on Wednesday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted the Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Xiangchen Zhang, the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said.

As reported earlier, on October 27, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting on reforms in agriculture and problems in the activities of clusters and the ways to solve them, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On October 27, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the presidential press service said.

On October 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting on reforms in agriculture and problems in the activities of clusters, said the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

On October 27, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov attended the regular meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the countries neighboring Afghanistan, held in Tehran, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The National Electric Grids of Uzbekistan will build the country's first digital substation, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Wednesday.

The signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations of Uzbekistan and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation took place at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Uzbekistan Airways will increase frequency of Kyiv flights to from November 3, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

From November 1, a subsidiary company Uzbekistan Airports Handling begins operations as part of Uzbekistan Airports. It will be headed by Umid Khamraev.

On October 26, the Japanese government decided to contribute US$ 65 million in emergency grant aid to Afghanistan and neighboring countries "where humanitarian needs are growing," the country's Foreign Ministry said.

On October 26, Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan, the presidential press service said.

The chief of Uzbekistan’s mission to NATO, the Ambassador Dilyor Khakimov met with the newly appointed NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Politics and Security, the Special Representative for Central Asia and the Caucasus Javier Kolomina, Dunyo reported.

In an interview to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov explained the reasons for Uzbekistan's being cautious in making a decision to join the Eurasian Economic Union.

Presentation of Russian-made metro cars that arrived the other day took place today at the Tashkent-Central railway station. The delivery of the current third batch of metro cars, was the final one from the side of the Uzbekistan Railways, which now completed its obligations to the Tashkent metro imposed by the president's Implementation of the project "Acquisition of ten metro trains for the Tashkent metro overground line" Decree. 

Uzbekistan will prepare a document on mutual recognition with Russia of vaccination certificates against coronavirus by mid-November. the chief of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Authority, Bakhodir Yusupaliev said.

On October 25, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to provide the population and sectors of the economy with natural and liquefied gas decree.

On October 25, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed amendments to the Tax Code. The amenments was passed by the Legislative Chamber on October 19 and was approved by the Senate on October 21.

Data from World Prison Brief released on Monday, October 25, show that Uzbekistan has 22,867 prisoners, or 68 per 100 thousand of the population.

The United States supports the people of Uzbekistan for exercising their right to vote in the presidential elections on October 24.  We concur with the OSCE-ODIHR monitoring mission’s observation that the vote was peaceful and characterized by high voter turnout but share the OSCE mission’s concerns that the elections took place in an overly restrictive political environment and that important election safeguards were disregarded.