President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bill into Law Thursday, which was passed by the Legislative Chamber on March 15 and approved by the Senate on March 29. The document was published today in the Narodnoye Slovo newspaper and will take immediate effect.
Tashkent's Bainalminal (transl. International) street will be renamed to Seoul street. It will be reconstructed in the Korean style, the Tashkent deputy mayor for investment, innovations and tourism development Alisher Tilyaev said.
The Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has not backed Russia’s proposal for the joint investigation into the Salisbury attack, a diplomatic source with one of the delegations told on Wednesday.
Uzbek Ambassador to China Baktiyor Saidov, who has been holding this post since last summer, has been concurrently appointed as Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Mongolia with residence in Beijing.
Uzbek Ministry of Internal Affairs hosted a meeting with visiting Chinese delegation led by Vice Minister of Public Security Li Wei. The guests were hosted by the First Deputy Interior Minister of Uzbekistan, Major-General Davron Nazarmukhamedov, the ministry said in a statement.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Ratification of the Convention of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Countering Extremism Bill into law. The document was published on Wednesday in the Xalq So’zi newspaper. The bill was passed by the Legislative Chamber and was approved by the Senate in March.
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry delegation led by the Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will attend the regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
President of Uzbekistan ratified two international treaties - on the junction point of borders with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and on legal assistance with Afghanistan. The ratification laws were published in the Xalq So’zi newspaper.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed decree Monday creating the Ministry of Construction in place of the Committee for Architecture and Construction.
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan held a session of the working groups of the joint Uzbek-Turkmen inter-governmental commission on issues of delienation of the state border in Turkmenabad from March 26 to April 1, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.
Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov received the newly appointed Ambassador of Belarus Leonid Marinich, the Foreign Ministry reported.
Uzbek Foreign Ministry today hosted a meeting with the delegation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) led by the General Director William L. Swing, the ministry said.
The chairman of the Uzbek State Security Service (DXX), Ikhtiyor Abdullayev named the external and internal factors that threaten Uzbekistan’s security.
On the second day of his trip to Jizzakh province President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Forish field training ground.
Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted Friday the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative, the head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) Natalia Gherman, the ministry said.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today arrived in the Djizak province, the presidential press service reported. First of all, he got acquainted with the activities of the Zarbdor textile in the Zarbdor district, whose construction he instructed during last year's trip to the province and which now employs over 1,060 people will.
The Uzbek Senate passed the Public Procurement Bill. According to the Senate press service, the provisions of the bill include norms on state regulation of public procurement, identified subjects of public procurement, set general requirements for the process of public procurement.
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to Uzbekistan this autumn, the Uzbek President's press service said.
Lieutenant-colonel Kadirov Doniyor Bakhtiyorovich has appointed as the chief of the Main Office for Combating Terrorism and Extremism under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry said in a statement.
The Uzbek Senate passed the State Security Service Bill at Thursday's plenary session. The bill consists of 9 chapters and 48 articles that form a unified policy in the sphere of ensuring Uzbekistan's state security.