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The Tashkent city mayor Jahongir Ortikhodjaev met with executives of Siemens, EDF and Stone City Energy, the mayor's office said on Monday.

The Uzbek Ambassador to Kabul, Yodgorkhuja Shadmanov, met with the Foreign Minister Maulavi Amir Khan Mottaqi of Afghanistan in the caretaker government.

The U.S. is in talks with countries that border Afghanistan about housing “over the horizon” counterterrorism operations that would allow the U.S. military to more easily surveil and strike targets in the Taliban-controlled nation, according to senators who attended a classified hearing with Pentagon leaders this week. Those sites could include bases run by Russia in those countries, they said.

A major Conservative party donor who funded Boris Johnson’s campaign to become prime minister advised on the structure of a deal that was later found to be a $220m (£162m) bribe for the daughter of the then president of Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met on Sunday in Tashkent. She was also hosted by interagency delegation that included National Security Advisor Viktor Makhmudov, Minister of Justice Ruslanbek Davlatov, and Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatullah Irgashev. The U.S. Deputy Secretary congratulated Foreign Minister Kamilov and the Uzbek people on Uzbekistan’s 30th year of independence and thanked them for Uzbekistan’s constructive engagement on Afghanistan. The Deputy Secretary and Minister Kamilov discussed their joint efforts to combat COVID-19 through vaccine distribution.

The Uzbek pharmaceutical company Jurabek Laboratories has manufactured the first batch of ZF-UZ-VAC2001 coronavirus vaccine in 7 million doses, Vaccination.uz and the Ministry of Health reported.

It has long been known that Bukhara is famous all over the world for its great scholars, poets and thinkers, and it is no exaggeration to include today's youth in their ranks. In particular, the changes in all spheres of life in our country are a clear example of the state youth policy in Uzbekistan.

On the margins of the Tashkent Economic Forum, the State-Owned Assets Management Agency signed a memorandum with the Russian Expobank on the purchase of Poytakht Bank, the Uzbek Finance Ministry said.

The Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan Nigmatilla Yuldashev hosted the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov on Wednesday.

After the signing of a shares purchase agreement between the State Assets Management Agency (SAMA) and Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) within the framework of the economic forum in Tashkent, the acquisition of 57.118% of the shares of Coca-Cola Bottlers Uzbekistan, Ltd is officially completed.

The President of Uzbekistan and the presidential candidate from the UzLiDeP party Shavkat Mirziyoyev, having visited the Namangan and Fergana regions, arrived in Andijan. On Wednesday, he met with voters at the Andijan Institute of Agriculture and Agricultural Technologies, the party's press service reported.

The Ministry of Health reported of a daily over 510 people diagnosed with coronavirus in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of September 28, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 173,409 (+510)," the report said.

Today, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Chairman of the Executive Committee/ Executive Secretary of the CIS Sergei Lebedev, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry.

In 2021, the Japanese company Isuzu will halt production of 729 cars worldwide and switch over to more eco-friendly and comfortable configurations of the 700P generation.

On September 29, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov will visit Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Prosecutor General Office said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at a meeting with voters in Samarkand on September 24, said that some people tried to discredit him when he was the mayor of Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district (1992-1996).

It is planned to implement an electric vehicles unit project at the Central Asia Motors CO enterprise in Fergana province. This is stated in the presidential draft Investment Program of Uzbekistan for 2022-2024 Decree, published by the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade on the regulations discussion portal.

The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit Uzbekistan in October, the statement of the US Department of State said on Monday.

Uzbek citizens who get citizenship of another state could be obliged to notify of this within 30 calendar days, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said with reference to Farkhod Ashmatov, a member of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Legislative Chamber.

Uzavtosanoat plans to contribute 427.7 million dollars to launch production of Chevrolet Onix and Tracker at UzAuto Motors plant. The project is due in September 2022 with a capacity of 190,000 vehicles per year.