Friday, 07, November, 2025

National

As part of his visit to Washington, D.C., President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the Senior VP/Global Chief Procurement & Supply Chain Officer at the General Motors Shilpan Amin.

Uzbekistan will revise its Personal data law, announced President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting with US companies in Washington Thursday. According to him, Uzbekistan has adopted programs for AI development and digitalization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan unveiled a public mural titled “Sog‘lom kelajak” (Healthy Future) to mark the culmination of the World Health Day 2025 campaign “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures”, dedicated to improving maternal and newborn health globally.

Uzbek companies and government bodies signed a number of deals with US companies. The following accords were signed after a round table discussion attended by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick Thursday:

President Donald Trump hosted leaders of five Central Asian countries at the White House on Thursday as he intensifies his hunt for rare earth metals needed for high-tech devices, including smartphones, electric vehicles and fighter jets.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking at the C5+1 Summit of the leaders of the Central Asian and the US President Trump at the White House in Washington on Thursday, highly praised the role of US President Donald Trump in advancing cooperation with the Central Asia. He also expressed hope that Donald Trump would be able to stop Russia's war against Ukraine.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump will host the leaders of five Central Asian nations at the White House on Thursday as the U.S. seeks to gain influence in a region long dominated by Russia and increasingly courted by China.

Business, Competitiveness and Industry Development Committee of the Legislative Chamber and the Ecological Party’s faction held a joint meeting, and discussed prospects for implementing hydrogen technologies, reliable provision of the economy with energy resources, and increasing energy efficiency.

The United States aims to help Central Asian countries maintain their independence and the ability to determine their own future. Republican Senator, Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations James Risch said on November 5th at an event dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the C5+1 (Central Asia + USA) diplomatic platform Wednesday.

The Interior Ministry has launched a probe into reports of an alleged financial pyramid scheme called XCM (X Connection Media), the ministry's spokesman Shokhrukh Giyasov said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he planned to visit the five Central Asian countries in the coming year, as he met their foreign ministers as part of a Trump administration charm offensive aimed at the resource-rich region.

Two teens from Andijan have been sentenced for carjacking and assaulting a police officer in Buka, the Zamon TV program reported in a story.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the US Representatives, Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), Carol Miller (R-WV), and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) in Washington Wednesday, the presidential press service said.

Türkiye is mulling introducing electronic work visas for Uzbeks, Dunyo news agency said. Uzbekistan government delegation met with the Deputy Interior Minister of Türkiye, Mehmet Aktaş In Ankara. During the negotiations, the Turkish official stated that it would explore the possibility of granting work permits to citizens of Uzbekistan who entered Türkiye on other categories of visas, without requiring them to leave the country.

The Senate at its session on November 1, approved a law regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

On October 28, MPs at a meeting of the Legislative Chamber heard the Minister of Energy's response to a parliamentary inquiry regarding the development of renewables, the press service of the lower house said.

The president signed a Decree on October 30 reorganizing the Strategic Reforms Agency under the President of Uzbekistan into the Strategic Development and Reforms Agency.

As of October 1, 2025, Uzbekistan’s permanent population stood at 38,069,116 people, the National Statistics Committee said.

On November 3, a 34-year-old man stabbed his 27-year-old wife and 2-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife to death in Uzbekistan district of Fergana province, the General Prosecutor's Offices said. Reportedly, the stabbings occurred during a conflict due to the man's failure to pay alimony.