Thursday, 28, March, 2024

National

The early morning breeze in the old part of the town carries music playing at a nearby café, attracting passersby. The strays of sun gently warm the street, although in the shade the cold still bites the skin. Among the sightseeing backpackers, the petite girl shows up at the half-filled pond in the town center.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev wıll pay an official visit to Belarus from July 31 to August 1. This was by the Uzbek Ambassador to Belarus Nosirjon Yusupov announced at a briefin.

The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today held a telephone conversation with the UAE Deputy PM/Minister of Presidential Affairs Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the presidential press service said.

The European Union (EU) provides a €2 million grant towards a UNDP programme that will enable Afghan women to graduate from universities in neighbouring Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan’s Permanent Representative at the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva, Ulugbek Lapasov, met yesterday with Roberto Azavedo, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Foreign Ministry said.

Ossetia-born Uzbek super heavyweight wrestler Artur Taymazov became the second athlete to be stripped of gold medals from multiple Olympics for doping, losing his London 2012 title two years after giving up his Beijing 2008 crown.

Rehabilitation work to clean up Soviet-era uranium sites at seven facilities in Central Asia is slated to begin later this year with €85 million in financing from the European Union (EU).

The Senate Chairman Tanzila Narbaeva met with the Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev and discussed the ways to further strengthen inter-parliamentary cooperation, including within the framework of international parliamentary bodies.

Uzbekistan plans to increase GDP per capita from US$ 1,532 in 2018 up to US$ 4,550 in 2030, the Ministry of Economy and Industry said in analytical report.

The Tashkent metro authorities started the second stage to drill a 1.43 km long tunnel towards the Shakhriston station, the terminus of the Yunusobod line with the help of German Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine, to add two stations - Turkiston and Yunusobod.

A resident of the Yakkabag district of the Kashkadarya province spalshed gasoline over the deputy district mayor Mansur Tuymaev and set him on fire.

Ulugbek Sayidov has been appointed Uztransgaz chairman, the Ministry of Energy said. Ulugbek Sayidov, 40, is the graduate of the Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology (2002). He began his career in 2001 as a lab engineer at UzLITIneftegaz, which he then headed from 2015 to 2016. Prior to his appointment to Uztransgaz, he served as the first deputy chief of Uzbekneftegaz.

Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov held talks with Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells, the MFA said.

The United States of America is one of the TOP-3 destinations where Uzbekistan nationals prefer to emigrate, the State Statistics Committee said in a report for January-June 2019.

In the first year-half, Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover topped US$ 19.68 billion, an increase by US$ 4.52 billion, or 29.8%, compared to the last year, the State Statistics Committee said in a report.

Branch of Astrakhan State Technical University to open in Tashkent province, Norma said. The branch will admit its first students in the 2020/2021 year.

Total of US$ 226.14 million will be contributed for the renewal of the Uzbekistan Railways locomotive fleet in 2019-2021.

On July 17, 2019, as part of the visit of the Uzbekistan government delegation to the United States, the First Deputy Chairman of the Senate Sodiq Safoev held talks with the Vice President of the World Bank Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, who was joined by lead experts of the International Finance Corporation.

The excise tax for imported electric vehicles (HS code 870380) to Uzbekistan has been scrapped, follows from the presidential decree of July 18. Other vehicles in group 8703 shall remain taxable to 30% excise tax.

On July 19, 2109, United States Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum highlighted the key successes of a five-year U.S. Government program to fight tuberculosis (TB), and announced future programs in Uzbekistan to reduce and eliminate TB, especially drug-resistant strains. He handed over USG purchased modern laboratory and video equipment worth over $730,000 to improve detection and treatment of drug-resistant types of TB (DR TB), enhance the country's testing capacity of quality of medicines, and connect TB specialists across the country with TB experts in Tashkent and internationally.