The State Customs Committee (SCC) of Uzbekistan proposed to Turkish colleagues to speed up the preparation of an intergovernmental treaty on creation of a simplified customs corridor, the SCC said.

The Foreign Ministry announced readiness to hold the next high-level European Union-Central Asia dialogue in Tashkent on political and security issues in 2020, the ministry said. This year, a meeting of this format was held in May in Brussels.

The second consultative meeting of the heads of Central Asian states is scheduled for November 27 and will be held in Tashkent, the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev said today.

On November 11, 2019 Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Pekka Haavisto in Brussels, the ministry said.

Uzbekistan wants to complete the negotiations and join the WTO as soon as possible, as well as to sign the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the European Union. However, we are not fixing any (specific) timelines whatsoever. said Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov at a press conference.

Five men of Kashkadarya's Karshi city were arrested for alleged gang rape of a 26-year-old woman, the Interior Ministry’s newspaper “At The Post” reported.

Kang Nam-kyu, a Korea Republic national, has been arrested as a suspect in a criminal case against the Korean and Migrations employment agency, the Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry said.

The Institute of Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan and the Valdai Club Foundation signed a Cooperation Agreement in Samarkand on Sunday, Kun.uz said.

Air defense and air forces of Uzbekistan successfully tested FD-2000 anti missile systems, the Ministry of Defense said.

Svetlana Artykova, who served as deputy chair of the Senate, has been appointed deputy prosecutor general, the Senate said. Svetlana Artykova, 57, graduated from the Tashkent State Law University. For many years she worked in the prosecutor's office.

U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum participated in a signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize joint public health education and scientific research between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America, and the Tashkent Medical Academy, representing the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

A Memorandum on opening of a joint Uzbek-British pharmaceutical university in Uzbekistan was signed between the Uzbek Agency for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry under the Ministry of Health and De Montfort University, the Foreign Ministry said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the heads of delegations - participants of the Tashkent meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of the CIS.

Uzbekistan’s largest Kattakurgan military training ground was commissioned in the Central Military District, the Ministry of Defense said.

The Khorezm-based journalist Davlatnazar Ruzmetov died hit by a van on the night of November 7, his nephew announced on his Facebook page. The funerals will take place today.

Management and Data Storage center for the Safe City in Tashkent project will be set up, the IT Development Minister Shukhrat Sadykov announced today at the Government Hour in the Legislative Chamber.

The Border Guard of the CIS countries will hold first drill in Russia in 2020 with the involvement of troops and equipment, announced the chairman of the Coordination Service of the Border Troops Command, the General Colonel Alexander Manilov at the Seventh Scientific and Practical Conference of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the SCO in Tashkent.

At the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade was held a meeting with the visiting delegation of the Kingdom of Norway, headed by Secretary of State of the Foreign Ministry, A. Halvorsen, the ministry said.

Soon visitors to Tashkent Tower will be admitted without having to provide an ID, the Tashkent city mayor’s office said in a statement. However, when this decision will take effect was not disclosed.

Uzbekistan’s rating on the World Internet Freedom Index has improved by 1 score in a report by U.S.-based watchdog Freedom House announced on Tuesday.