Temperatures will gradually drop on July 7-11 in Uzbekistan after the intense heat last week, the Uzgidromet said.

The Chairman of the Tax Committee Sherzod Kudbiyev spoke about plans to reform tax administration and a possible revision of the turnover tax during an open dialogue with leaders of the hotel and audit companies, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday.

The chief of the Fergana Province Traffic Safety Department, the Lieutenant Colonel Akmal Akhmedov, has been sacked by the order of the Interior Minister, Aziz Tashpulatov, announced today the spokesman to the Traffic Safety Department of the Interior Ministry, Zoyir Yuldashev.

Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have set up a joint company, Green Corridor Union LLC, to implement the project of a green energy corridor to Europe, the National Electric Grids said.

A 20 MW wind power plant will be erected in Tashkent province, the provincial governor’s office said.

Uzbekistan will be seeking to operate its own ferries in the Caspian Sea to expedite the international trade transportation, the Transport Minister Ilkhom Makhkamov told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

On the margins of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit in Khankendi city, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif Friday.

The Season Two of the Initiative Budget will commence on July 15 and last through August 31, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said.

Najy Benhassine has started his assignment as the new World Bank Division Director for Central Asia, based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In this capacity, Mr. Benhassine will oversee the World Bank’s operations across Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit in the Khankendi city of Karabakh in Azerbaijan. the presidential press service said.

Several people involved in the theft of $90,000 from a bank have been arrested in Tashkent, the press service of the Interior Ministry said today.

Today, on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization Summit in Khankendi, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the acting First Deputy PM of Afghanistan for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

The Russia’s Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the Uzbek national Dzhavokhir Sagdullaev, who danced with a toy gun in the historical center of the city, to five months in prison; his sentence was deemed served taking into account the time he spent in pretrial detention, the press service of the St. Petersburg courts said.

The Uzbek Ambassador Alisher Tukhtayev met with the Pakistani Minister of Science and Technology Khalid Hussain Magsi Wednesday.

The President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation of the Uzbekistan Park in Baku Wednesday, the Azerbaijani presidency press service said.

Paid governmental services in Uzbekistan will become available in banking and financial apps, the Minister of Digital Technologies Sherzod Shermatov told the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.

48-year-old financier from Uzbekistan Kahramonjon Olimov, the sole shareholder of Anorbank, was kidnapped in the center of Paris, Le Monde said.

During the state visit to Azerbaijan, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev together with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the inauguration ceremony of the new building of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Baku, the Uzbek presidential press service said today.

Following the talks in Baku, the Presidents of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Ilham Aliyev adopted the Decision of the second meeting of the Supreme Bilateral Council, the Uzbek presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan, China and Belarus are mulling their joining the international consortium for the Multipurpose Fast Neutron Research Reactor (MBIR) project in the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, Russia, announced the Director of International Scientific and Technical Projects at Rosatom Vasily Konstantinov.