Today, on August 31, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the ceremony of honoring the memory of victims of repressions in Shahidlar Hotirasi (the Memory of Martyrs) alley.

On Tuesday morning, Uzbek immigration authorities denied entry to CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said, stating that the immigration system showed that she was not allowed to enter the country.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenka, the presidential press service said.

Forty women and girls successfully completed a new round of the U.S. Embassy’s Self-Defense Camp in Tashkent and received their well-deserved award certificates, along with trophies from Krystin Borgognone, Deputy Director of Programs at the U.S Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues.  

The General Prosecutor's Office has decided to release 24 people detained during the events of July 1-2 in Karakalpakstan autonomy under the guarantee of the public, the press service of the Ombudsman said.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, by his decree, awarded 12 foreign citizens with Dustlik Order (Friendship) on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of Uzbekistan’s independence.

The government and citizens of Uzbekistan should carefully consider the risks and benefits due to changing the current terms of office of the President, planned in the proposed amendments to the Constitution, the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum told the Alter Ego project.

On Monday, Uzbekistan received the delivery 201.6 thousand doses of Pfizer's pediatric vaccine against COVID-19 as part of the global COVAX mechanism, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Authority said.

The Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Finland, Qadam Sultanov, met with Professor Gulnoz Hallieva, a well-known researcher in the field of manuscripts.

MP of the Legislative Chamber at the regular plenary session on August 29 approved the candidacy of Aziz Voitov for the position of Minister of Agriculture, the Chamber’s press service reported.

The Uzsuvtaminot water supply company, Alkataş İnşaat ve Taahhut (Turkey) and Mesmer-East (Uzbekistan) signed a $22.2 million contract on August 27 to reconstruct a sewage treatment plant in Chirchik, the Uzsuvtaminot reported.

On September 1, the world-famous Niagara Falls will be illuminated in the colors of the national flag of Uzbekistan on the ocassion of the 31st anniversary of Uzbekistan's independence, Dunyo reported.

Uzbek Ambassador to Brazil (with residence in Washington) Javlon Vahobov held talks with Emiliano Diogenes Abreu, deputy director of the International Relations Office of the Brasilia city, Dunyo reported.

Reports surfaced on social networks that in Lashkar village of Kuvasay city in Ferghana province, a local police inspector beat and injured a resident.

The visit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand was not discussed or raised. Rahmatulla Nurimbetov, Uzbekistan's national coordinator for SCO affairs, told reporters at a briefing on August 26.

Amanbay Orynbaev was unanimously elected as the new chairman of the Jokargy Kenes of Karakalpakstan at an extraordinary meeting in Nukus on August 26, chaired by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The United States, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), announced $2 million in new commitments to support Uzbekistan’s farmers and fertilizer producers. The new funding will help protect vulnerable populations from the growing global food crisis and will be used to increase the volume and quality of fertilizer production in Uzbekistan. 

Dry weather will continue in Uzbekistan on Friday, August 26, Uzhydromet reported. Only in the foothills and mountainous areas of Namangan and Ferghana provinces, short-term rain, thunderstorms are possible in places, during thunderstorms with wind intensification up to 15–20 m/s.

Odil Abdurahmanov, 44, was appointed to the position of adviser to the president on youth, science, education, health, culture and sports issues. The Kun.uz source reports about this.