Rolling stock of the future skyrail ring line will be produced in Uzbekistan, Oybek Khudoikulov, the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan Railways/head of Tashkent Metro Company announced at the meeting of International press club.

The Government of Uzbekistan issued a Measures to Set up Press service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan Resolution.

Uzbekistan intends to give new momentum to its membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov saidat said at the meeting of the Heads of Government Council of the CIS member-states in Tashkent Friday. This is the first time Uzbekistan is hosting the event.

Uzbekistan will open its embassy in Minsk, the capital of Belarus,, with the appointment of an ambassador due in the near future, this was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with the Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday received the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who arrived in Uzbekistan on an official visit and to attend the next meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government, UzA said.

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov today held talks with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Tashkent. The heads of the governments of Uzbekistan and Russia discussed military-technical cooperation, labor migration and energy projects.

At a meeting with local authorities during Fergana trip in June 2017 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev harshly criticized the local tax authorities, with the footage posted on Youtube only on October 31.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday hosted the Under-Secretary-General of the UN, UNODC’s Executive Director, Yuri Fedotov. Shavkat Mirziyoyev noted with deep satisfaction the pace that partnership  ties of Uzbekistan with the UN and its bodies are developing.

Sayfulla Saipov, 29, a native of Uzbekistan, is suspected of a terrorist attack in New York which killed eight people and injured 11 when a pickup driver mowed down cyclists and pedestrians near the World Trade Center, before striking a school bus. The relevant agencies of the Republic of Uzbekistan confirm this suspicion, Jahon said in an official statement.

On 2 – 3 November 2017, the second regional kick-off meeting of the EU-funded CBRN Centres of Excellence project 53 (P53), worth 5 million euros, will be conducted in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent a message of condolences to President Donald Trump in connection with the terrorist attack in New York.

Alisher Sultanov, by the President’s decree, has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister - Head of the Complex for geology, fuel and energy, chemical, petrochemical and metallurgical industry, replacing  Gulomjon Ibragimov, a source in the government said. He will concurrently hold the post of chairman of the board at UzbekNeftegaz, which he has held since the summer of 2015.

Tashkent will on November 3 host the next meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the CIS member states, UzA said.

Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister today hosted the Senior Arctic Official and DG for Circumpolar and Eastern Europe of the Canada Global Affairs, Alison LeClaire.

Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatilla Irgashev today hosted the minister-counsellor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation Vadim Mitrofanov, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The Tashkent’s Mirabad District Criminal Court on Monday sentenced Islombek Tulaganov, student of the Borovskiy medical college to six years in prison for beating a classmate in May that led to his death.

UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov will visit Uzbekistan on 31 October 2017, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Tashkent will host the next round of Uzbek-Canadian inter-MFA political consultations, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Governor of Tashkent province Shukrullo Boboev and governor of Djizak province Ulugbek Uzokov were fired by the President, Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov announced at today’s government meeting, a source in the government said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Saturday familiarized himself with the construction progress of skyrail ring line, UzA said. The total length of tracks will be 52.1 km, of which 50.5 km will be laid above the ground on 6 m high overpasses and 1.6 km on the ground.