President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in order to inspect ongoing construction works and familiarize himself with socio-economic development, the activities of schools and makhallas (neighbourhoods) is visiting Tashkent’s Uchtepa district on Friday.

The Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan signed an order on June 15 appointing Ravshan Masharipov, a Counselor of Justice, as the Syrdarya province prosecutor for a five-year term, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said.

On June 16, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov received the newly appointed Ambassador of Ireland stationed in Moscow Adrian McDaid, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

Dr. Jatinder Cheema, Regional Mission Director, U.S. Agency for International Development/Central Asia and Dr. Mirzanazim Dusmuratov, Chairman of Board of the Uzbek State Joint Stock Pharmaceutical Company, Uzpharmsanoat, participated in a signing ceremony to formalize cooperation between Uzpharmsanoat and USAID on the implementation of the “Promoting the Quality of Medicines” Project in Uzbekistan.

Chairman of UzbekNefteGaz Alisher Sultanov, answering a question on plans for gas provision to provinces at the June 14 meeting of the International Press Club in Tashkent, said that things won’t get better in the provinces that had been deprived of gas for decades and that "people should hold no illusions".

Rustam Aminov has been appointed the first deputy chairman of the Committee for privatized enterprises assistance and competition development, the press service of the committee said referring to the June 12 Presidential Resolution.

At the Uzbek Foreign Ministry held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden based in Stockholm Ingrid Tersman on Wednesday.

On June 13 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting with judges of various levels, which was devoted to the state of affairs in the judicial system, existing problems and challenges. The meeting was also attended by the heads of both chambers of the Oliy Majlis, the Prime Minister, heads of law enforcement bodies, while the chairman of the Jokargy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, provincial governors, mayors of the city of Tashkent, cities and districts, heads of local law enforcement agencies, veterans, members of the public participated in the meeting in videoconference format.

Ulugbek Mustafoyev has been appointed as new chairman of the board of. In this post he replaced Fazliddin Salomov. Prior to that, Ulugbek Mustafoyev was the first deputy governor of Djizak province.

Sherzod Oblokulov has been appointed as prosecutor of Tashkent city, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday, the press service of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting Monday devoted to preliminary analysis of the socio-economic development of the country in the first half of 2017.

On June 12, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting with the visiting delegation from Poland headed by the Plenipotentiary for International Dialogue of the Polish government, the senator Anna Maria Anders, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

A three-day meeting of working groups of government delegations of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on the issues of delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Uzbek boundary ended in Dushanbe.

During his Andijan province trip, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev familiarized himself with the project of a large logistics complex for processing, freezing and marketing of fruit and vegetables, set up by JV Navigul in Khojaabod district.

The Uzbek Senate elected Alisher Kurmanov Chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations, Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Tourism.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Andijan province on June 2, UzA said. The Head of state intends to familiarize himself with status of projects implementation in Andijan and visit makhallas, schools and other social facilities.

An employee of the French Embassy in Uzbekistan, Major Francis Delègue, Head of the Regional Operational Security, also responsible for Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, died in an accident in the Chimgan mountains on Saturday, a spokesman for the diplomatic mission said.

On June 1, 2017, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America Pamela Leora Spratlen.

Uzbekistan will ask Saudi Arabia to increase the country quota for small pilgrimage (Umrah) to 10 thousand people in 2018, the Committee for Religious Affairs under the Cabinet of Ministers said.