Uzbekistan delegation led by the Senate Chairman, Nigmatilla Yuldashev will attend the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which will be held today in Istanbul, Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov yesterday hosted Pavol Ivan, who is completing his tenure as Ambassador of Slovakia to Uzbekistan, the ministry said in a statement.

Bakhodir Gaibnazarov has been appointed mayor of Tashkent’s Shaykhantahur district. Earlier, he was the mayor of Almazar district, a source in the district mayor’s office said.

Uzbek Foreign Minister delegation led by Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov yesterday met with the Turkmen Deputy PM/ Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov in Ashgabat, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  Monday, the Uzbek Presidency website said.

The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order approving the opening of a consulate general of Uzbekistan in Rostov-on-Don, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The United Nations in Uzbekistan warmly welcomes the adoption of the President’s Resolution on the State Programme for Persons with Disabilities.

Uzbekistan supports Turkmenistan’s peaceful foreign policy, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said at an international conference "Neutrality Policy and Preventive Diplomacy in International Relations: Experience of Turkmenistan and Its Significance " in Ashgabat.

Starting from January 1, 2018, the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government of the People's Republic of China on international motor road transport, signed on May 12, 2017 during the state visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to China, will come into force.

President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov today received Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev. This is reported by the Kyrgyz Presidency office said.

Meeting of working groups of the Uzbek- Turkmen intergovernmental commission on delimitation and demarcation of the State Border between the two countries was held from December 1 to 6, 2017 in Dashoguz (Turkmenistan), Uzbek foreign ministry said.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Uzbekistan’s Constitution, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree to pardon 2,700 prisoners, UzA said.

Andijan city mayor Dilmurod Rahmatullaev may be charged for insulting the heads of educational institutions with obscene words on October 16. the General Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

The President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani met with professors, teachers and students of Bukhara State University. The university is one of the largest higher education institutions in Uzbekistan with about 7 thousand undergraduate and graduate students studying in 8 faculties.

Uzbek Prosecutor General's Office launched investigation into alleged mixing of donkey meat by a sausage processing plant in Tashkent. Joint investigation by the Tashkent city and Khorezm province branches of the Department for combating tax, currency crimes and legalization of criminal proceeds within the Prosecutor General's Office found that 69.6 kilograms of donkey meat was delivered from Khorezm province to meat company and sausage processing plant called Sharshara which was later mixed with other meat.

The 24th OSCE Ministerial Council, bringing together some 45 Foreign Ministers from across the OSCE region, will take place in Vienna, Austria on 7 and 8 December 2017. At the invitation of the 2017 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, the Uzbekistan delegation will attend the Council meeting.

Ashraf Ghani accompanied by the Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov visited the Tashkent Plant of Agricultural Machineries. The Afghanistan delegation familiarized themselves with passenger cars and trucks, agricultural equipment, household appliances and other goods manufactured in Uzbekistan.

20 accords were signed at Kuksaroy residence following the talks between the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani, UzA reported. The two leaders also signed a Joint Statement.

Following the official welcoming ceremony of the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani at Kuksaroy residence, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani held talks in narrow format.

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is helping the new leader of his native Uzbekistan open up to the outside world and will invest “as much as I can” in the Uzbek economy, he told Reuters in an interview.