Uzbekistan Airways Technics will provide maintenance and repair services for Afghan aircrafts. The deal on this was reached during talks at the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Trade with Afghan Transport Minister Mohammad Hamid Tahmasi.

Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov and his Kyrgyz counterpart Isakov border in a telephone conversation Sunday discussed the incident that occurred on Saturday at the Uzbek-Kyrgyz, in which Kyrgyz citizen was killed.

Bangladesh delegation, led by the State Minister of Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam arrived in Tashkent Sunday. The program of the visit includes meetings and talks in the Legislative Chamber, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, trips to Samarkand and Bukhara, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

The Kyrgyz State Border Guard Service reported Saturday of an incident on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border, in which a Kyrgyz citizen was killed.

The University of Sejong (Republic of Korea) will open its branch in Tashkent from the new academic year in September. Tashkent branch of Sojong University will offer undergraduate programs in early childhood development, advertising, public relations and tourism.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree Thursday aimed at improving the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and enhancing of its responsibility for implementation of foreign policy and foreign economic priorities.

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.