Deputy Foreign Minister Olim Abdullayev met with Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braje in Riga on January 28. According to the Uzbek embassy, ​​during the meeting, the Foreign Minister Braje voiced her readiness to consider establishing a permanent dialogue on labor migration and signing an migration agreement.

A fire occurred in Bukhara province at the 106th km of the Bukhara-Ural gas pipeline, after gas leaked from a gas pipe underground section, 40 km from the nearest settlement - Kizilrabot mahalla of Romitan district.

The Uzbek Embassy in Russia has suggested that Uzbek labour migrants legalize their status. The diplomatic mission reminded that Uzbek nationals who are in the country illegally must legalize their legal status by April 30 to avoid possible negative consequences.

A drunk young man who killed three people by driving a car, which he doesn’t own, in Uychi district of Namangan province was issued a sentence, the spokesman to the Supreme Court Aziz Obidov said.

Privately-owned Anorbank has purchased buildings of the Ministry of Energy and the state-owned company Uztransgaz in downtown Tashkent worth total of 439.6 billion soums ($33.97 million).

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Special Adviser to the Japanese Prime Minister Akihisa Nagashima.

The governments of Uzbekistan and Russia will create a new mechanism for regulating labor migration, the press service of the Migration Agency said today.

At the government meeting today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed to increase the volume of aviation services by at least 20% in 2025. In particular, he ordered to double the number of flights to Samarkand, Bukhara, Urgench, Nukus and Termez. In general, airline passenger number in the country must be brought to 15 million passengers, which is 1.5 million more than last year.

The President Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to introduce modern mechanisms for the judicial protection of the rights of individuals and business entities Decree, which shall from now stipulate:

Commercial banks in Uzbekistan will be entitled to directly purchase commercial real estate from developers. This was discussed at a government meeting development of the services market chaired by the president Mirziyoyev today.

The Off-Budget Pension Fund commented on the procedure for paying state pensions to the retired who left Uzbekistan for a long period.

Driver of a GM Gentra with Jizzakh province license plate (25 A 888 MA) attempted to run over a group of people during a conflict in Tashkent on Friday night. 

The UzAviation Agency has granted permits to Malaysian, South Korean and Egyptian airlines for regular Uzbekistan-bound flights.

Uzbekistan and Switzerland signed a deal today in Tashkent on the return of the confiscated assets which belonged to the late president Islam Karimov’s elder daughter, Gulnara Karimova.

The Attorney General's Office has examined the legality of the court ruling issued in the case of a husband and wife who offered a 13-year-old girl money for sex with the man, the press service of the Attorney General's Office said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim attended Uzbek-Malaysian Business Forum in Kuala Lumpur, the presidential press service said Wednesday.

Malaysian company Meraque will launch smart agricultural machinery and drones manufacturing unit in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture said.

As part of the program in Kuala Lumpur, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim visited the headquarters of the Petronas Corporation and met with the company's President & CEO Mohammed Taufik, the presidential press service said.

According to the Tasnim News Agency, an economic delegation from Uzbekistan, which traveled to Kabul and met with officials from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Taliban government, announced that the country is ready to import coal from Afghanistan to create a balance in trade between the two countries.

The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E-190 in December 2024 was attributed to damage “probably caused by external objects penetrating the aircraft components”, according to a preliminary report from the Kazakh government.