Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov held bilateral meetings with ambassadors of France Aurelia Bouchez, of Qatar Hassan Hamza Hashim, of Azerbaijan Huseyn Guliyev, of the USA Jonathan Henick and of Italy Agostino Pinna.

On October 19, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved the Framework Agreement between the governments of Uzbekistan and South Korea on cooperation in the field of climate change.

USAID Administrator Samantha Power will travel to Uzbekistan from October 23rd-24th to convene the first C5+1 Regional Connectivity Ministerial and emphasize the U.S. government’s commitment to the independence, sovereignty, and prosperity of the countries in the region. 

Last year, Uzbek agriculture consumed 39 billion cubic meters of water. Of this, 36%, or more than 14 billion, was lost in canals and ditches with earthen beds, said Shavkat Mirziyoyev at today’s government meeting.

Partly cloudy and warm weather will remain over most of Uzbekistan on Friday with air temperatures within +24...+27 degrees Celsius, Uzhydromet reported.

Samarkand city criminal court sentenced a 36-year-old man who stabbed to death two daughters and a son aged 13, 12 and 10 years to life imprisonment finding him guilty under the Deliberate murder of two or more persons who were in a helpless state, with particular cruelty charge, the spokesman to the Samarkand province court Sadriddin Nabiev reported.

President signed the Measures to further improve the road industry Decree. The Decree stipulates the building of in the directions Tashkent to Andijan, Tashkent to Samarkand toll roads and a toll tunnel in Tahtaqoracha pass in 2025.

Nishan district criminal court in Kashkadarya province on October 4 sentenced a man who had illegally used drinking water for 13 years, Uzsuvtaminot's press service reported.

In a meeting with the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Climate Change Aziz Abdukhakimov,, the Iranian Minister of Tourism Zarghami signaled that Iran welcomes arranging a visa waiver deal between the two countries.

AKFA Group purchased a 50% stake of FEED UP fast food chain, the owner of Feed Up Umid Irgashev said on his Instagram page on Wednesday.

Uzbekhydroenergo and China Southern Power Grid International signed an agreement on the joint construction of the Yuqori Pskem pumped storage power plant (PSPP), the press service of Uzbekhydroenergo said.

Uzbekistan Airports’ 100% stake in its regional wing Silk Avia airline is being handed over to Uzbekistan Helicopters, which is subsidiary of Uzbekistan Airways.

Negotiations between the Uzbekistan and the United States on the fate of the aircraft and helicopters that were delivered to Uzbekistan from Afghanistan in August 2021 are still ongoing. The US Ambassador to Tashkent, Jonathan Henick told the Gazeta.uz on Wednesday.

Minister of Defense Bakhodir Kurbanov hosted the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Zakir Hasanov in Bukhara on Thursday, the press service of the ministry said.

Officers of the Department of Combating Organized Crime of Almaty and Shymkent freed more than 60 citizens of Uzbekistan, who remained in labor slavery among the local population, Polisia.kz reported.

With the support of the Spotlight Regional Programme for Central Asia, an expert dialogue was organized to discuss the scope, consequences and outcomes of the criminalization of domestic and partner violence. Legal experts, law enforcement representatives, lawyers and gender specialists from Central Asian countries participated in the dialogue.

Today, the Bostanlyk District Criminal Court sentenced former officer of the National Guard Sh. Sh., 30, the spokesman to the Supreme Court, Aziz Abidov reported.

Uzbekistan Railways, the Tourism Committee under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change, as well as the Italian company Arsenale signed a tripartite memorandum on the development and production of a luxury tourist train.

As part of the second day of his stay in China, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the CEO of the China Energy Engineering Corporation, Song Hailiang.

We strongly condemn this terrible act of violence and consider it a gross violation of the international humanitarian law, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Uzbekistan called on the parties to the conflict to immediately stop hostilities and cease the fire.