President Mirziyoyev has appointed the heads of the newly formed Ministry of Culture and the Committee for Sports. a statement of the Ministry of Culture said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today in the morning departed for Kashkadarya province, where he has been inspecting the ongoing construction works, projects of new enterprises.

On 23 February, 2017 the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Askar Mamin, who arrived in our country to participate in the meeting of Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission on bilateral cooperation.

An explosion occurred on February 23 at 16:30 at ammonia refining facility located in FerghanaAzot plant of Fergana province when repair and installation works were taking place, a statement of the Emergency Situations Ministry said. There were fatalities confirmed, but their estimated number was not disclosed.

President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev in March will pay a state visit to Kazakhstan, this was announced during the 16th meeting of the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission on bilateral cooperation, which started today in Tashkent.

On February 22, 2017 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Viktor Guminskiy.

On February 22, 2017 at the Uzbek Foreign Ministry was held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Riaz Husain Bukhari.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on February 22, 2017 signed a decree "On granting citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan". The decree has satisfied the applications and granted citizenship to 94 people.

On February 20, 2017 the Competition Committee of Uzbekistan hosted a meeting between the chairman Davron Khidoyatov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey, Ahmet Başar Şen.

On February 22 at the Ministry of Development of Information Technologies and Communications was held a meeting with the Ambassador of Latvia to Uzbekistan, E. Bondars.

On February 22, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Abdulaziz Kamilov received the new head of the Regional Office for Central Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jean-Jerome Casabianca. a statement of the press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

Starting from June 1, 2017, Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court and the Supreme Economic Court will be merged into one supreme judicial authority for civil, criminal, administrative and economic justice - the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan.

On 17 February Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Mr Chris Allan, hosted a press conference devoted to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UK and Uzbekistan.

Regular flights between Dushanbe and Tashkent were supposed to be launched on February 20, following earlier agreements between aviation authorities of the two countries.

Alisher Shadmanov has been appointed as new Health Minister of Uzbekistan, it said in a statement  of the Health Ministry.

On February 20, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan was held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Tyurdenev.

On February 15 the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, Adkham Ikramov held a meeting with the Vice Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Zhenish Razakov in Fergana, a statement of the Kyrgyz government website said.

On the ocassion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Uzbekistan and the United States of America, the Presidents Donald Trump and Shavkat Mirziyoyev exchanged congratulatory messages, a statement of the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan said.

Tokhirjon Jalilov, who served as deputy chairman of UzAvtoSanoat and CEO of GM Uzbekistan from November 2010 to the spring of 2016, has returned to the role, the company press service said.

On 15 February 2017, a new project “Strengthening Transport and Logistics Business Intermediary Organisations (BIOs) in Central Asia” was launched in Tashkent. The project is funded by the EU (750.000 EUR) and will be implemented in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in 2017-2019.