DaVinci Management Consulting will on September 27 hold the III Annual Best Employer 2018 Award. Among the participants are the international and local companies such as Nestle, JV UzBAT, Lukoil Uzbekistan Operating Company, HYATT REGENCY TASHKENT, General Motors Powerrtain Uzbekistan, Anglessey Food, Murad Buildings, Abbott Laboratories SA, Sanofi, OLX Uzbekistan, IP Knauf Gips Bukhara, EGIS, HAYAT Clinic, JV International Beverages Tashkent.

Uzbekistan delegation led by Prosecutor General Otabek Murodov attended the 28th meeting of the Coordinating Council of Prosecutor Generals of the CIS countries and the 16th meeting of the Prosecutors General of the SCO member states in Dushanbe Thursday, the Uzbek Prosecutor General Office said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev by his September 21 decree approved Uzbekistan’s Innovative Development Strategy for 2019-2021 and the Road Map for its implementation.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov yesterday hosted the visiting Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Niels Annen.

The U.S. Department of Labor today released two reports that shine a spotlight on child labor and forced labor in nations around the world: the eighth edition of the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor and the 17th annual edition of the Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. These reports, prepared by the Department's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), highlight specific sectors in which child labor or forced labor persists in foreign nations, and describe the progress some countries have made in upholding their international commitments to eliminate these practices.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the President of the Islamic Development Bank Bandar Al Hajjar, who is leading a delegation of Arab Coordination Group, the presidential press service reported.

Day and night training sessions with the use of fighter aircrafts took place at the Karshi-Khanabad airfield involving the South-West special military district, the Defense Ministry said.

Uzbek Foreign Ministry yesterday hosted a meeting with the Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Hadi Soleimanpour, who arrived in Tashkent to attend the conference: Central Asia in the System of International Transport Corridors: Strategic Perspectives and Unrealized Opportunities.

In the framework of the regular inter-parliamentary dialogue in the Uzbekistan-EU format, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry yesterday hosted a meeting with the members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, the ministry said.

Tashkent today hosted the first meeting of the heads of railway authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) under the chairmanship of the Uzbekistan Railways, UzA said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the adjutant general of the Mississippi National Guard, Major General Jenson Boyles and the member of U.S. House of Representatives Trent Kelly.

U.S. Senate confirmed the candidacy of Daniel Rosenblum as the American ambassador to Uzbekistan. Rosenblum had told about his plans as ambassador to U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in August this year.

First Stihia festival of avant-garde electronic music was held on September 14 at the Moynaq Ship Graveyard, where a monument commemorating the tragedy of the Aral Sea now stands, the Tourism Development Committee reported.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will on September 27-28, pay a visit to Tajikistan, the president’s press secretary Komil Allamjonov said on his Facebook page.

Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Friendship Society was established on Tuesday in Tashkent, with the rector of the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies Abdurakhim Mannonov named as its chairmanб UzA reported.

Uzbekistan wants to adopt UN General Assembly special resolution on Enlightenment and Religious Tolerance, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told in a meeting with Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom on Tuesday.

Uzbekistan is set to amend the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations Law (1998). Uzbek Ministry of Justice has prepared amendments to the law which are now being discussed by foreign experts, Sodiq Safoev, First Deputy Chairman of Uzbek Senate, said at the conference entitled “Religious Tolerance: The Experience of Uzbekistan and the USA” in Tashkent on Monday.

Explosion of gas cylinder occurred today at about 8:30 AM in an Isuzu bus which was carrying 26 people following a road accident on Bukhara-Karaulbazar highway in Kagan district of Bukhara region. Four women died on the spot, another one died in the hospital, the Ministry of Emergencies said.

Michael Denison, a political adviser at BP said that the company was ready to extend its presence in Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan 24 reported.

The United States Forest Service (USFS), the Uzbekistan State Forestry Committee (SFC), and the Green World Future NGO kicked off a three-day series of workshops on September 13 in Sukok Reserve in Parkent District of Tashkent province.