According to the Statistics Agency, 627,196 live births were registered in January-August 2023 by the civil registry offices of Uzbekistan.

Today, the United States through its Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Uzbekistan towards expanding access to safe and quality tuberculosis and other medicines in Uzbekistan.

On September 5, the New Tashkent city draft master plan was presented to the president. After the presentation, Davronjon Odilov, Deputy Minister of Construction, Head of the New Tashkent City Development Management company unveiled some information about the project.

Uzbekistan does not recognize the elections in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic that took place on September 9, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Dust storm hit Tashkent, with Air Quality Index topping 112, which makes the capital of Uzbekistan the most polluted air quality city in the world right now. It also means that such air is harmful to vulnerable groups.

On September 5, Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the New Tashkent draft master plan. At the presentation, the president said: “If we don’t start this, in five years people will not be able to live in Tashkent.”

Uzbekistan and the Korea Republic have settled the Uzbekistan’s debt as part of the Ustyurt gas chemical complex joint project, the South Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance said.

Remediation work at legacy uranium mining sites in Uzbekistan is under way, bolstered by a €9 million grant from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA)­ set up on the initiative of the European Union (EU) and managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). This is the second Central Asian state, where such remediation activity under the ERA is taking place.

Agri-Food Investment Forum of Uzbekistan took place today as part of the International Conference on Food Security in Samarkand.

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 shows Uzbekistan occupying the 21st position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index). Uzbekistan’s score on the hunger index is 5.6 which is worse than the score of 24.2 it had in 2020. (The lower the figure, the less is hunger).  

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed decree on September 4 aimed at developing private airlines in Uzbekistan. The decree aims to relax the temporary import of aircraft. This is provided for by the Roadmap attached to the decree after his dialogue with business leaders.

One-stage control point has been launched at Tashkent’s central (Northern) rail station, the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan said. This means that document checks and baggage inspections are now carried out in one place, and not in several, as before.

Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov, who is on a visit to the United States on September 4-5, held talks with the leadership of Air Products, Exxon Mobil, Abbott, HP, Valmont Industries, General Electric, Caterpillar, US Inc, John Deere Air Products , Exxon Mobil, Abbott, HP, Valmont Industries, General Electric, Caterpillar, US Inc, John Deere and others.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Qu Dongyu on Thursday and discussed the ways to counter modern challenges and threats to food security, including at the regional level, the presidential press service said.

Amid overlapping challenges and geopolitical risks, IFC invested and mobilized over $1.6 billion in the Central Asia region in fiscal year 2023 (FY23)—its highest ever in the region—to enhance growth, upgrade regional connectivity, and build climate resilience. That work, between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, came alongside milestone engagements to boost financial inclusion, structure groundbreaking public-private partnership (PPP) projects, and promote gender diversity.

Record batch of drugs - 8.5 tons of opium straw was arrested at the Tashkent-Aero customs complex at Tashkent’s international airport, the Customs Committee said. The operation was carried out by officers of the Customs Committee (CC) and the State Security Service.

On August 31, a minor boy was beaten in Furqat district of Fergana province, the provincial police department said. A 13-year-old teenager damaged the tires of a GM Nexia belonging to his neighbor R.Yu. The man assaulted and wounded the child.

Uzbekistan and Israel have agreed to lift restrictions on air flights between the countries, the Dunyo reported. On September 6, the Uzbek Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Feruza Mahmudova, and the Minister of Transport and Road Safety of Israel, Miri Regev, signed a MoM amending the intergovernmental treaty on air services of July 4, 1994.

At the session of the Legislative Chamber on September 5, MPs considered a package of amendments to the Administrative Liability Code and the Criminal Code, the press service of the lower house said. These amendments would reportedly create legal basis for enhancing Uzbekistan as a secular state as enshrined in the Constitution.

The Department of State has issued all available 55,000 diversity visas for the 2023 Diversity Visa Program.  Each year, the Department of State is legally allowed to issue approximately 55,000 diversity visas.  When all of the 55,000 diversity visas are issued, the program concludes for that year in all countries – not just Uzbekistan.