Minister of Defense of Uzbekistan Bakhodir Kurbanov met with his Kazakh counterpart Ruslan Zhaksylykov in the Kazakh city of Aktau.

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Today, on August 1, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on measures to increase reserves and increase the volume of development of minerals.

The body of a 30-year-old woman with traces of suffocation was found in a hotel in the Nurli Yul neighbourhood in Samarkand, the prosecutor's office of Samarkand province said.

The Minister of Defense Bakhodir Kurbanov hosted the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Korea Lee Jong-sup on Tuesday.

The Criminal Court of the Mirabad district of Tashkent is completing the consideration of the criminal case against blogger Abduqodir Muminov. At the August 1 hearing, the prosecutor asked Judge Sardorbek Sadikov to sentence the blogger to 11 years in prison.

On July 27, the Uzbekistan delegation, headed by the President’s Envoy for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, attended the meeting of the special session on Afghanistan in the C5 + 1 (Central Asia + USA) format at the level of envoys for Afghanistan.

Bahram Mansurov has been appointed Director General of Uzatom under the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan, the UzA said today.

Uzbekistan authorities are eyeing to halve the number of road traffic accidents with serious consequences by 2030. This is provided for by the draft Uzbekistan-2030 strategy, posted for public input the day before.

Integration of ATMs of Uzcard and Humo payment systems has been completed, Uzcard announced on Monday. Now all ATMs in the country accept cards of both systems.

Schoolboy jumped from the fifth floor in Tashkent’s Shaykhantakhur district while trying to escape from Islamic classes taught illegally and with violence by a native of Kashkadarya province. The boy hung on the extension cord, and then fell down, Hudud program of the MY5 TV channel reported.

Around noon on Saturday, a fire broke out in a karaoke cafe located in the basement of a four-story building in Fergana.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs moved to another building. Now it is housed in the former building of the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction at Islam Karimov street 45A. This was reported by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was confirmed by the press service of the ministry.

The Development Strategy Center has published a draft Uzbekistan-2030 Strategy for public input. The discussion will last through August 9.

The Ministry of Employment and Poverty Reduction announced the degree of poverty broken down by the provinces in January-June.

At the Talimarjan thermal power plant in the Nishan district of Kashkadarya province, the construction of two new combined cycle gas plants has begun, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan said.

On July 26, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures for socio-economic development of Tashkent city until 2030 Decree. The document has outlined the main areas of development of the capital city for the next seven years.

Daily electricity consumption record was broken in Uzbekistan on July 26, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said.

Each year, more than 3 million people in Central Asia are affected by storms, floods, landslides and earthquakes.

Foreign Minister of Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov held talks with his Tajik counterpart Sirojiddin Muhriddin and his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov via video conference call.