The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in November in the format of a video conference.

On September 10, Uzbekistan Deputy Prime Minister Sardor Umurzakov held talks with the Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs of Pakistan Ali Haider Zaidi, the Uzbek Ministry of Investment Foreign Trade reported.

Seven countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will test the combat readiness of the joint air defense system during a training session that began on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan and Russia Abdulaziz Kamilov and Sergey Lavrov met on September 10 on the sidelines of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan and Russia Abdulaziz Kamilov and Sergey Lavrov will hold bilateral talks on Thursday in Moscow on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Restoring direct flights between Samarkand and Lviv was discussed on September 9 by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Uzbekistan Nikolai Doroshenko and the governor of the Samarkand province Erkinjon Turdimov, as well as the Samarkand city mayor Boburmirzo Oblakulov. The Ukrainian Embassy said on its Facebook page.

Today, U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum, together with the Minister of Water Resources, Shavkat Khamraev, opened a virtual event in Tashkent to celebrate the renovation of the Yomonjar irrigation system in Bukhara province. The rehabilitation was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Smart Waters project, implemented by the Central Asia Regional Environmental Center (CAREC).

The daily increase in confirmed coronavirus cases in Uzbekistan is increasing for the third day in a row. On September 9, it stood at 512 cases (on September 8 - 443, on September 7 - 312).

The Cabinet of Ministers issued a resolution on September 8 approving the measures to organize the cotton harvest campaign in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture said.

The international organization CERT INTERNATIONAL (Slovakia) conducted a study of the activities of the Uzbekistan Ministry of Justice in all areas and, based on the findings, issued an anti-corruption conformity certificate.

Uzbekistan could be handed observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union before the year-end,Iya Malkina, assistant to Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) announced today at an online briefing. 

Member of the Senate, the People's Writer of Karakalpakstan, a journalist, holder of the El-Yurt Hurmati Order, Sharap Usnatdinov has died at the age of 78, the press service of the Senate said.

Abdurakhim Muminov has been appointed as the first deputy adviser to the President in charge of protection of human rights and handling letters from individuals, UzA reported.

Uzbekistan is preparing for the second wave of the coronavirus, the Director of the Agency for Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing Bakhodir Yusupaliyev told Kommersant in an interview.

Agency for Cadastre will be set up under the State Tax Committee in place of the State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre (SCLRGCSC). This is provided for by the Sep.7 presidential decree on radical improvement of the system for keeping records of land and state cadastres.

On September 8, after a drief illness, Sergey Vyunenko, chairman of the board of Uzmetkombinat JSC, died, the company said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to boost the development of Uzbekistan’s food industry and provide the population with high-quality food products Decree.

The number of EMS calls has started to rise again, the Health Ministry said in a statement. “According to the statistics for the last 5-6 days, the number of EMS calls has risen from 29.3 thousand to 34.2 thousand. The calls due to acute respiratory diseases increased from 2.2 thousand to 3.0 thousand, while due to high to high temperature, the calls increased from 2,500 to 3,500,” Farrukh Sharipov, head of a department at the Health Ministry, said. 

Tajikistan has resumed the electricity supply to Afghanistan and is considering to resume exports to Uzbekistan, Asia-Plus said.

An Uzbekistan national, 22-year-old Abdulla Soipov, has died falling from a steep cliff near a waterfall in southern Thailand, pattayapeople.ru reported.