Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov Tuesday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and discussed among bilateral issues, trade, investment and business-to-business and people-to-people contact between the two countries.

138 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 22, the Ministry of Health said. 56 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 21 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov met with Deputy Head of the Caretaker Government of Afghanistan Abdul Salam Hanafi in Kabul.

Presidential Adviser on Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood says President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to Pakistan on the second and third of the next month.

The distribution of Kyzylkumcement net profit for 2020, including the submission to the general meeting of shareholders (GMS) of the issue of directing profits for the payment of dividends, will be considered after "stabilization of the company's financial position". The company announced this on February 16. At the same time, the OCA, which was rescheduled for February 17, was postponed for an indefinite period.

The official opening of the representative office of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in Uzbekistan took place at the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection on February 22, the committee said in a statement.

Andijan city mayor Bahromjon Khaydarov is accused of causing damage to state interests worth over 1.7 billion soums as a result of violation of the law during land acquisition, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

In line with Uzbekistan’s development strategy for 2022-2026, 15 new hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) with a total capacity of 868 MW will be built in the country, with 5 more operating HPPs to be modernized, the Ministry of Energy said.

175 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 21, the Ministry of Health said. 88 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 39 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

On February 21, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to stimulate development of domestic market of cars Decree.

The Prosecutor General's Office unveiled the findings of the investigation prompted by a story published by Kun.uz in December last year. According to the publication, dozens of rare manuscripts dating back to the 13th-15th centuries have disappeared from the library of the National University of Uzbekistan.

The Suisse Secrets investigations – released today by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian and 45 other media outlets – reveal previously unknown breaches, dubious clients and volume of dirty money recycled by one of Switzerland’s largest banks, Credit Suisse. After yet another massive bank scandal, it is time for governments around the world to take decisive action against these professional enablers of financial crime.

Tehran hosted a meeting of the co-chairs of the Uzbek-Iranian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation between the Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan S. Umurzakov and the Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin.

Spring-like warm weather without precipitation is expected across Uzbekistan on Monday, Uzhydromet said today in a statement.

160 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 20, the Ministry of Health said. 77 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 27 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

135,875 doses of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine were delivered to Uzbekistan, bringing the total of this vaccine delivered to Uzbekistan to 343,375, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.

At a government meeting on the development of carmaking industry on February 14, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pointed to the need for a phased zeroing of customs duties on car imports.

Uzbekistan has begun implementing elements of the Vision Zero strategy, which involves reducing road deaths to zero. This was stated at a meeting of the parliamentary commission on last Friday in the Senate by Deputy Interior Minister/head of Department of Public Security Bekmurod Abdullayev.

During the visit of the Uzbek government and business delegation to Iran, Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umrzakov met with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in Tehran.

On February 19, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken exchanged congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, announced the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yusup Kabulzhanov.