Today the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, who arrived in Uzbekistan on a visit, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his Yashnabad district visit on Saturday made an unannounced visit to the family polyclinic №32, Akhborot news program on Uzbekistan TV channel reported.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a state visit to China on May 11-13, UzA said. Shavkat Mirziyoyev will meet with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhang Dejiang and other leaders, where they are expected to discuss the state and prospects for advancing the bilateral ties.

On May 6 Shavkat Mirziyoyev in order to “familiarize himself with socio-economic development and to inspect ongoing projects” visited Tashkent’s Yashnabad district. The first destination of the visit was Toshkent Kogozi LLC (transl. Tashkent Paper), UzA said.

The monument to the blacksmith Shaakhmed Shamakhmudov's family lived a new birth when it was inaugurated in the Park of Amity (former Babur Park), after being brought back on May 1 from the city outskirts to where it was removed in 2008.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev by his May 5 decree appointed Kochkarov Bahrom Tulkinovich to the post of chairman of the Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, the committee said in a statement.

Vladimir Norov has been appointed Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

On May 4 Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree to rename Tashkent airport after the late President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.

In the end of April 2017, the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan visited the Republic of Karakalpakstan. This was an intensive and multifaceted trip, and the Ambassador was able to familiarise himself with the life of the Republic and the opportunities and challenges facing its people. He was accompanied throughout by Karakalpakstan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and International Trade.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on May 2 signed a decree creating a 24-hour free-to-air O'zbekiston 24 (Uzbekistan 24) news and analytical TV and radio channel parented by the flagship National Television and Radio Company (NTRC), a source in the government said.

As reported earlier on May 2 was held the second meeting of the International Press Club which was devoted to the activities of the internal affairs bodies.

A delegation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, headed by Zeid bin Ra'ad al-Hussein (the High Commissioner) will reportedly pay an official visit to Uzbekistan on May 10-12, 2017.

On May 2, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, for the first time after taking office of the President of Uzbekistan, received the credentials of foreign ambassadors, UzA said. The ceremony was aired on Uzbekistan channel.

The short number of the hotline which will field complaints on police abuse is 1102, the Uzbek Interior Minister, Major-General Abdusalom Azizov announced at a meeting of the International Press Club.

The United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan commends Uzbekistan’s recent signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

On May 2, 2017, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Saudi Arabia H.E. Hisham bin Mishal bin Suwail al-Suwail, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

On May 2, 2017, the Uzbek Interior Minister, Major-General Abdusalom Azizov, at a meeting of the International Press Club, spoke about the capacities of the Interior Ministry to counter various threats, including terrorism and religious extremism.

According to UzA, on May 1, 2017, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, on mutual agreement.

From May 1 the Nukus Airport will be temporarily closed for international flights due to renovation works at the airport complex. According to the press service of Uzbekistan Airways, the flight HY 626 Nukus-Domodedovo-Nukus will be moved to Urgench airport.

On April 26 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev decreed the commencement of operation on May 15 of Ok Oltin and Malik road checkpoints on the Uzbek-Kazakh state boundary.