Uzbekistan will launch Advice.uz website, that will give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, consumer and other problems, the Ministry of Justice said.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the invitation of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, today left Tashkent for Paris for an official visit.

Uzbek Interior Minister, Major General Pulat Bobojonov attended the first meeting of the Interior Ministers of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Chulpan-Ata city, the Kyrgyz Republic, the ministry said.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will visit Uzbekistan in October of this year, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the French President Emmanuel Macron and will pay an official visit to France on October 8–9 , the presidential press service reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev By the of of October 4 decree scarpped the visa requirement for French citizens as of October 5, 2018 for a stay not exceeding 30 days, the Committee for Tourism said.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations has prepared the draft of the so-called Hydrometeorological Authority’s Innovative Development Concept for 2019-2025.

In July-August of 2018, the National Scientific Center for Employment under the Ministry of Employment conducted a sociological study, the center reported.

According to the October 4 presidential decree, information technologies will be introduced in the Uzbekistan elections, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Ministries of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan signed a protocol on cooperation in the law enforcement and on the fight against crime for 2019-2020, the Uzbek Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbekistan and India may create technology parks for software and innovative products. Uzbekistan is repoterdly planning to cooperate with the Indian Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) to set up platforms for the development of software products.

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are actively working on creation of the “Central Asian Schengen zone”, an area foreigners could visit on a single visa.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a meeting on Wednesday on the state of affairs in the energy sector, the presidential press service said.

Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of the late President Islam Karimov, is currently in Uzbekistan and is serving her 5-year sentence, a source in the government said.

Komil Allamjonov has been sacked as deputy chief of the presidential administration — press secretary to the President of Uzbekistan, a source in the presidential administration said, with reasons for firing not known.

First Deputy Interior Minister of Uzbekistan, Major-General Davron Nazarmuhamedov hosted the Vice President of Interpol Major-General Alexander Prokopchuk and the representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Uzbekistan Eugenie Fedotov, the Uzbek interior ministry said.

Rakhmonbek Usmanov, who served as Tashkent city mayor from 2011 to April, 2018, has been appointed as the Tashkent's Yunusabad district mayor, the mayor's office said.

The Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) is looking at funding Aral Sea’s climate change adaptation and prevention programme worth $20 million in partnership with the World Bank in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Qobil Nosirov, a deputy of the Uzbek MP said.

Uzbekistan delegation led by Minister of Public Education Sherzod Shermatov held talks with U.S. Secretary of Education Elisabeth DeVos in Washington on Tuesday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Uzbekistan ratified several international treaties, Norma.uz reported. Uzbekistan ratified the Paris Climate Agreement (Paris, December 12, 2015) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020. The Paris Agreement's long-term goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels; and to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, since this would substantially reduce the risks and effects of climate change.