President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore and Special Representative for Central Asia Terhi Hakala, the presidential press service said.

Rais (chairman) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov will visit Uzbekistan on April 24-25. During the visit, he will attend Innoprom exhibition, the launch of a technopark in Jizzakh, as well as the opening of a medical education center in the Jizzakh branch of Kazan Federal University (KFU).

The Prosecutor General's Office is probing into the incident of presumably teachers being beaten in an Uzun district school of Surkhandarya province, the Office’s spokesman Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov hosts the EU’s Special Representatives for Central Asia, Terhi Khakala and EU’s Special Representatives for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore.

President signed the Measures to implement the program for providing the population with housing through mortgage loans based on market principles for 2023 Decree setting zero customs duty on some building materials.

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry has approved the request of the current Afghan authorities to accredit their diplomats in Astana. This was announced on April 17 at a briefing by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan Aibek Smadiyarov.

Ukraine was the largest supplier of apples to the Uzbek market in January of this year, despite the ongoing war, complicated and expensive logistics, and other difficulties that Ukrainian gardeners are facing.

In December 2022, Gazprom allowed its employees to visit only 14 “friendly” countries. The 14 “friendly” countries include: Belarus, Serbia, Turkey, China, UAE, Sri Lanka, India, Morocco, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are on the list of “most preferred to visit” countries.

Plane of the Turkish AnadoluJet landed at the Tashkent airport today at 5:11 AM, launching Ankara to Tashkent flight. The Boeing 737-800, which carried 160 passengers to Uzbekistan, was greeted with a water arch, the Uzbekistan Airports reported.

G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting issued a 11-item statement, which included Russia’s war against Ukraine, Global consequences of this war, Global issues, Irna, and others, including Central Asia.

Samarkand was declared the cultural capital of the CIS in 2024. This was announced at the meeting of the CIS foreign ministers. The city of Samarkand will become the cultural capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2024.

Wikipedia’s Uzbek section ranked first in Central Asia and 45th in the world by the number of articles, the Youth Affairs Agency said on Minday.

Senate speaker Tanzila Norboeva hosted the parliamentary delegation led by the Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Boris Kollar.

From Wednesday, the anticyclone will begin to recede from the territory of Uzbekistan, and dry weather will be established by the end of the working week, Uzhydromet reported.

The Czech government delegation headed by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala will embark on a tour which includes Vietnam, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Uzbekistan and the Philippines.

Woman was arrested in Fergana province, who tried to sell her 8-month-old daughter for $10 thousand, the Fergana province police department reported.

Workers could have 3 days off in a row due to Ramadan, the State Service Development Agency said. Reportedly, employees who work a 5-day work week have days off on:

Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the national leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslakhaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Saturday, the presidential press service said.

Russia is the closest partner and ally for the countries of Central Asia, and a confidential dialogue with Russia in the wake of major geopolitical tensions is of particular importance said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov, TASS reported.

Uzbekistan Pension Fund said that raising the retirement age was not on the table. “The Pension Fund is not currently reviewing this matter or has not received any proposal”. They urged Uzbeks to have no worry about this.