Tashkent passenger carriages plant, a subsidiary of Uzbekistan Railways, has been transferred to trust management. This became known from the minutes of the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on March 28.

2,983 micro hydroelectric power plants with 164 MW total capacity are planned to be erected in Uzbekistan, which will generate 500 million kWh of power annually in 2025-26. This is provided for by the of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s March 28 Additional measures to develop the network of micro hydroelectric power plants in Uzbekistan Decree.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the visiting Speaker of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tran Thanh Manh Monday. At the beginning of the conversation, Tran Thanh Manh conveyed sincere greetings to the Uzbek leader from the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party To Lam, President Luong Cuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Tinh.

On the sidelines of the first Samarkand International Climate Forum, the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade signed a number of green project deals in Uzbekistan.

In Andijan province, a local taxi driver recruited people for the war in Ukraine. The man conspired with a Russian national to recruit Uzbeks into the Russian armed forces. For each new recruit he was promised one thousand dollars.

Uzbekistan Airways received the delivery of a fourth LET L-410 light aircraft of the Czech LET Aircraft Industries Monday, the company said.

Former chief of the presidential administration Zainilobiddin Nizomiddinov has been appointed mayor of Bekabad district of Tashkent province, the press service of the provincial administration said.

Dry and very warm weather is expected in Uzbekistan. The air temperature during the daytime will be within 23-28 degrees Celsius, in some places up to 30 degrees, the Uzgidromet said in a forecast.

Today, the Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov met with the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Jeddah, Saud Arabia.

Global changes in the world pose new challenges for national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union that unites them, stated the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in his address to the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Tashkent today.

Today, on the sidelines of the 150th Anniversary Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Numan Kurtulmuş.

Anadolu Isuzu has made an offer to the Uzbekistan State Asset Management Agency to purchase controlling stake in JV SamAuto.

The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures of state support for poor families while floating energy prices Decree, the UzA said.

Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Numan Kurtulmuş made remarks at the conference entitled Youth - Shining Star of Turkic World: Our Shared Heritage, Our Common Future, held in Khiva at the initiative of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF).

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II on May 9 in Moscow, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev over telephone Saturday, the Uzbek presidency website said.

At the Climate Forum in Samarkand on 4−5 April, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change, in collaboration with the World Bank, announced the launch of the Restoration of Sustainable Landscapes in Uzbekistan Project. The initiative is funded with $153 million under a regional program aimed at restoring forests and degraded lands in Central Asia.

In his remarsk on Friday at the Samarkand Climate Forum, the President Mirziyoyev emphasized that last year the average global temperature increase had reached one and a half degrees Celsius, and the last decade had been the hottest in the history of meteorological observations.

The leaders of Central Asian countries and the European Union adopted a Joint Declaration following the first summit of the two regions, the press service of the European Council said.

President of the European Council António Costa made remarks at the CA-EU Samarkand Summit today: “The partnership between the Central Asia and the European Union is a journey, not an end in itself.”