Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov will pay a working visit to Russia this week, the press service of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Starting from September 7, 2018 Uzbekistan Railways will launch the regular Tashkent-Karshi-Shahrisabz service on Afrosiyob high-speed train.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt arrived in Uzbekistan on an official visit in the evening of September 4. At Tashkent airport, the high guest was welcomed by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service said.

New Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to France Sardor Rustambayev presented his credentials to the French President Emmanuel Macron, the Uzbek Embassy in Paris said in a statement.

Delegation of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) led by Vice President Baek Sook Hee will visit Uzbekistan on 4 September 2018, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Islam Karimov Scientific and Educational Memorial Complex in Tashkent on September 2, where he laid flowers at the monument to the first president Islam Karimov, the presidential press service said.

President of Egypt Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan on September 4-5, UzA reported. During the talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the parties will reportedly discuss the promising areas for advancing the Uzbek-Egyptian ties in the political and economic areas, as well as in tourism, science, education, culture and sport.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, Major-General Pulat Bobojonov hosted the U.S. delegation led by the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), David Bowdich, the ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree to pardon a group of people serving prison sentences, who sincerely repented for what they did, Uzbekistan 24 reported.

The State Aviation Administration hosted a meeting with officials of foreign airlines. The meeting was devoted to the subject of provision by carriers of information on transit passengers, the Committee for Tourism development said.

Otabek Akbarov, the newly appointed Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Italy, today departed from Tashkent for Rome, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

As a part of its strategy to accompany international clients into new and attractive markets, SCHNEIDER GROUP is opening an office in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The country’s authorities are displaying considerable efforts to create an investor-friendly environment, and business opportunities in the country are plenty in a variety of fields, from textile production to pharmaceutics, the company said in a statement.

Uzbek Deputy Minister of Justice Akbar Tashkulov today solemnly presented to U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela Spratlen a certificate of state registration of the representative office of the American Councils for International Education (ACCELS) in Uzbekistan, the ministry said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today signed a decree on awarding the founder and CEO of the Russian USM Holding Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov with El-Yurt Hurmati (appr. transl. Homeland's Esteem) Order.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today arrived in Tashkent province to familiarize himself with socio-economic facilities, the Presidential press service reported.

The Ministries of Justice of Uzbekistan and Iran signed a memorandum of cooperation, the Uzbek Ministry of Justice. The document was reportedly signed in Cholpon-Ata (Kyrgyz Republic) within the framework of the Sixth Meeting of the Ministers of Justice of the SCO Member States.

Uzbek Foreign Trade Minister Jamshid Khodjaev met with the Minister of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Oreshkin in Tashkent Monday.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Creation of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree Monday reorganizing the Office of the President of Uzbekistan into the Administration of the President.

Uzbekistan foreign minister Abdulaziz Khafizovich Kamilov on Monday met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul where he discussed issues of mutual interest between the two nations with a special focus on major economic, regional and transit projects, Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process and the fight against terrorism.

The Office of the President of Uzbekistan has been reorganized into the Administration of the President, which will ensure the activities of the head of state and monitor the execution of his orders and decisions, the sources in the government told the Tashkent Times.