President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America Pamela Spratlen, who is ending her posting in Uzbekistan.

The branch of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (formerly Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys State Technological University) opened in Olmaliq city of Tashkent province.

Cavalry Parade will take place near Tashkent’s Amir Temur square on October 1 at 4 PM. The event will feature over 100 horses of English, German, Novokyrgyz, Karabair and Frisian breeds, the Equestrian Sports Federation said.

UzbekTelecom’s internet access monopoly could become a thing of the past in 2020, with the direct access available to all operators. This move is contained in the road map of the Uzbekistan’s Innovative Development Strategy for 2019-2021 signed by the President Mirziyoyev.

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.