Thursday, 28, November, 2024

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At the fifteenth plenary session of the Senate on May 29, the Presidential Security Service (PSS) of Uzbekistan Bill was passed, the Senate said in a statement.

On May 30, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in, and attended the second international "Partnership for Green Growth and Global Goals - 2030" (P4G), held in Seoul online.

As per the monitoring of the authorized bodies in May 2021, the personal data of Uzbeks on the social networks VKontakte (owned by Mail.ru Group), Twitter (Twitter Inc) and WeChat (Tencent Inc) are being processed in violation of Article 27-1 of the Personal Data Law, the press service of the Uzbek inspectorate committee (Uzkomnazorat) said.

The Finance Minister Timur Ishmetov said that in 2020 the state budget received 12.8 trillion soums less from some taxes due to the decline in economic activity, and elaborated on how the deficit was covered.

The Namangan governor Shavkatjon Abdurazzakov hsoted a Ukrainian delegation headed by the Khmelnitsky city mayor Alexander Simchishin, the governor’s office reported.

Uzbekistan government delegation led by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov landed in Minsk to attend the next meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

A perinatal hospital will be built in Nukus (Karakalpakstan) with a grant from the Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan Charitable Foundation (UAE). This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan.

The Government of Uzbekistan and the UN Office in the country have launched a coordinated UN/EU/the U.S. action to support women and children returning from conflict zones, with financial support from the European Union and the U.S. Department of State. This is said in the statement of the parties circulated on May 27.

The Ministry of Transport announced the forming of a commission to study the incident with the aircraft of the Egyptian airline FlyEgypt, which flew over the center of Tashkent during takeoff.

A branch of the Russian Chemical-Technological University named after D. I. Mendeleev (RCTU) has opened in Tashkent.

A group of deputies of council of people's deputies of the Andijan province made an appeal to the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Amazon has added traders from Central Asia, including Uzbekistan, to to Approved Selling Countries List. As of May 24, traders and manufacturers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have the opportunity to register directly with Amazon.

The agreement on the Uzbek-Turkmen water management commission was signed between the governments of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan on May 26 as part of the visit of the Uzbek government delegation to Ashgabat, the Foreign Ministry said.

In line with the Agreement between the Governments of Uzbekistan and Turkey on air services, Uzaviatsiya Agency issued an Operational Permit to Turkey-based MNG Airlines on May 26, 2021.

UNICEF and UNFPA donated US$ 1 million worth medical equipment to maternity hospitals in Karakalpakstan, the UNICEF office in Uzbekistan said.

The Council of the Senate at a meeting on May 25 approved a proposal on a phased contribution of funds from the national budget to compensate for damage to businesses of Syrdarya province caused by the breakthrough of Sardoba reservoir.

Today, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit as the head of the Uzbek delegation, was received by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

On May 25, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting on measures to improve the plant protection system, the presidential press service said.

During the visit of the Afghan government and business delegation to Uzbekistan in Termez on May 25, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umrzakov held talks with the Chief of Staff of the President of Afghanistan Mohammad Shakir Korgar.

The Senate will convene for the fifteenth plenary session on May 28-29, the press service of the upper house of parliament said. This decision was made by the council of the Senate at a meeting on May 25.