The President's Spokesman Sherzod Asadov provided information on state support for bone marrow transplantation. He briefed the media on the events with the participation of the head of state planned for the week. At the end of the event, he took questions from journalists.

On May 24-28, experts from the OSCE ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission are expected to visit Uzbekistan due to the upcoming presidential elections in October 2021.

On May 19, a resolution in support of Uzbekistan's independence and sovereignty was submitted to the US House of Representatives for reviewing.

Meetings with officials of the UAE aviation authorities was held at the Ministry of Transport on May 19-20 this year. The sides discussed the ways to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of civil aviation, increasing the number of flights, launching new destinations.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked off a two-day conference “Collaboration Between Government and Civil Society in Legal Reforms”.

The Ministry of Justice has developed a draft concept for a single e-platform for CIS for exchange of legal information, said Minister Ruslanbek Davletov, speaking on May 19 at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Ministry of Justice aims to learn from the experience of Russian experts in applying the principle of regulatory guillotine, and in expert check and systematization of regulations, the Ministry of Justice said.

Locally designed Tarlon light armored vehicle (LAV) is being tested in Uzbekistan, the State Committee for Defense Industry said in a statement.

Yesterday, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Director General/Chairman at Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov.

A delegation of human rights activists visited the migrant detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, as well as the Moscow multifunctional migration center in Sakharovo.

The Kazan Federal University plans to open its branch in Uzbekistan. According to the Tashkent province governor’s office, the delegation of the Tashkent province discussed the opening of a new university with the leadership of the Kazan Federal University. The parties reached an agreement that the new university will provides programs in social sciences and economics.

Today were held political consultations between the foreign ministries of Uzbekistan and Ukraine, the Dunyo news agency reported.

An Uzbek opposition politician says his party has begun a new signature drive to get registered for an autumn presidential election after its first attempt was rejected.

The Deputy PM S. Umurzakov met with the Chief Operating Officer for Digital Technologies and Logistics of the Emirati company DP World Mike Bhaskaran.

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.