As reported earlier, the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov today arrived in Tashkent on a working visit. The visit began with the talks with the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service said.

On November 29, Tashkent will host the first meeting of the heads of the police departments of the CIS countries capital cities, the Tashkent Police Department said.

Uzbekistan’s external public debt is 23.8% of GDP, the Ministry of Finance said in a report. Uzbekistan’s total public debt is recorded 33.6%, which is moderate according to the IMF.

The Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ambassador Sherzod Asadov, yesterday in Vienna met with the new Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, the Foreign ministry said.

The Uzbek Agency for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare announced that over 41 thousand people live with HIV in Uzbekistan, with 57 percent being male, while 43 percent - female.

One of the leading Israeli universities, the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), may open its branch in Tashkent. This issue was discussed bewteen the Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov with the Israeli Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Edward Shapira, the ministry said.

The Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in the afternoon arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the second meeting of the Council of Heads of Central Asian States.

A prominent Uzbek human rights activist and outspoken critic of late President Islam Karimov has died in his native city of Jizzakh, a year after he returned to Uzbekistan from France, where he spent more than a decade in exile.

Drivers queuing at a methane gas station in Bakht town of Syrdarya province today blocked the Tashkent-Gulistan section of the M-34 highway fo several hours after the station was closed by the Uztransgaz operators.

The State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, in a Cabinet’s draft resolution, proposes to obligate all cement plants to install air sampling and analysis stations.

On November 26, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, the presidential press service said.

On November 25, 2019, the National Anti-Human Trafficking and Forced Labor Commission held its first video conference meeting with the officials of the US Department of State, the Senate said.

An official of Uzbekistan Airways said why air tickets are so expensive in Uzbekistan, UzA said. “30-40% of the ticket price is made by the jet fuel price. Since we don’t have enough supplies of kerosene in Uzbekistan, we buy it from abroad. We were selling kerosene to foreign carriers at US$ 1.2 thousand a ton. Under the new system, Uzbekistan Airways may buy kerosene and refuel foreign aircrafts for US$ 890,” said Ulugbek Bektoshev, the head the company's Air transport development department.

Smartcard fare payment system (SFPS) will be fully introduced for Tashkent public transport before Q2 2020, the director of Transport and Logistics Development Center under the Ministry of Transport, Murad Abidov announced at a briefing on Monday.

The President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov arrived in Samarkand on a working visit. At the international airport of Samarkand, he was welcomed by the governor of the Samarkand province, Erkinjon Turdimov.

The First Deputy Foreign Minister, Ilkhom Nematov met with the head of the Election Observation Mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)б Cayetana de Zulueta Outram, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

The twenty-fourth plenary session of the Senate will be held on November 30, the Senate press service said. The main item of the session will be reportedly the draft Uzbekistan State Budget for 2020, with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bill, Volunteering Bill and Trade Unions Bill also expected to be considered.

The commander of the Interior Ministry’s Guard Troops Major General, Dmitry Pan, has been arrested, the Ministry said in a statement.

Next year, inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will inspect the ongoing construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus and evaluate the plans for the Uzbekistan nuclear power plant project, the acting DG of IAEAб Cornel Ferouta announced at a meeting of the IAEA Governing Council in Vienna, the UN News Service reported.

The Special Envoy of the Canadian Prime Minister to the European Union, former Foreign Minister, Stéphane Dion today landed in Tashkent.