President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held an official meeting devoted to the Uzbek Armed Forces Wednesday, the press service of the head of state said.

The son of the late president Islam Karimov from his first marriage – Pyotr Karimov appealed to the Tver Court of Moscow for the recovery of money due from his now former employer.

The Uzbek-Russian Forum of Interregional Cooperation and the Moscow Days will be held October 18-20 in Uzbekistan, the Tashkent mayor’s office said in a statement.

Today kicked off the seminar of the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the RosAtom working group in Tashkent.

The chairman of Uzbekneftegaz Bakhrom Ashrafkhanov met with the CEO of the oil and gas consultancy company Beicip-Franlab, Jean Burrus yesterday, Uzbekneftegaz said.

Uzbek sappers are demining the Uzbek-Tajik border jointly with Tajik counterparts in the direction of the cities of Penjikent and Samarkand, the head of the press-center of the Tajik Committee for National Security, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Ulughodjaev told Asia Plus.

The Special Representative of the Uzbek President for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev today met with Markus Potzel, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the foreign ministry said.

The State Secretary, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin received from the new Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Russia, Botirjon Asadov, the copies of credentials on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said.

Uzbekistan will launch Advice.uz website, that will give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, consumer and other problems, the Ministry of Justice said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the invitation of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, today left Tashkent for Paris for an official visit.

Uzbek Interior Minister, Major General Pulat Bobojonov attended the first meeting of the Interior Ministers of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Chulpan-Ata city, the Kyrgyz Republic, the ministry said.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will visit Uzbekistan in October of this year, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the French President Emmanuel Macron and will pay an official visit to France on October 8–9 , the presidential press service reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev By the of of October 4 decree scarpped the visa requirement for French citizens as of October 5, 2018 for a stay not exceeding 30 days, the Committee for Tourism said.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations has prepared the draft of the so-called Hydrometeorological Authority’s Innovative Development Concept for 2019-2025.

In July-August of 2018, the National Scientific Center for Employment under the Ministry of Employment conducted a sociological study, the center reported.

According to the October 4 presidential decree, information technologies will be introduced in the Uzbekistan elections, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Ministries of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan signed a protocol on cooperation in the law enforcement and on the fight against crime for 2019-2020, the Uzbek Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbekistan and India may create technology parks for software and innovative products. Uzbekistan is repoterdly planning to cooperate with the Indian Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) to set up platforms for the development of software products.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are actively working on creation of the “Central Asian Schengen zone”, an area foreigners could visit on a single visa.