President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the President of the United States of America Donald Trump and will visit the United States on May 15-17 with the first official visit, the presidential press service reported.

Immediately upon arrival at the Tashkent airport, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the the Chairman of the Committee for Northern Economic Cooperation of South Korea, Son Young-gil.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Namangan city center of government services during his trip to the province Thursday, the President's press service said.

Uzbekistan delegation led by the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov has departed for Tajikistan to attend the Dushanbe High-Level Conference: Counteraction to Terrorism and Radicalism on May 3-4, 2018.

During the visit of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Uzbekistan, the two countries reached agreement on holding joint military exercises, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

Uzbekistan intends to open consulates in Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg in 2018, the Uzbek Ambassador to Russia Bahrom Ashrafhonov told Xalq So’zi (transl. People’s Word) newspaper.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Baraka Meva Sanoat Service company in Chust District, the presidential press service.

The first ever Government Hour (equiv. of Question Time) in the history of the Uzbek parliament was held in the Legislative Chamber Tuesday. It addressed the issues of providing the public with clean drinking water and its rational use, as well as providing affordable and quality medicines to the population and medical institutions.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Namangan province, the President’s press service said. Having visited the province in July 2017, the President set goals aimed at developing the province, creating jobs, construction of social facilities and developing the agriculture.

Uzbek Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Turkish Ministry of Labor and Social Security signed an agreement on protection of the rights of migrant workers and members of their families of the two countries, the Uzbek Ministry of Labor reported.

SkyPower Global will invest US$1.3 billion for solar energy projects in Uzbekistan. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the additional Measures to Implement Solar Energy Projects Decree Saturday.

The Presidents of Uzbekistan and Turkey arrived in Bukhara city today, where they visited the city sights Poi Kalyan complex, the Presidential press service said. The two leaders accompanied by the first ladies visited the Poi Kalyan complex and the Kalyan mosque, and also familiarized themselves with the activities of the Islamic school in Mir Arab madrasah.

Kabul Berdiyev has been appointed chief of the Civil Protection Institute under the Ministry of Emergency Situations, replacing Zafar Turaev, who returned to the post of deputy chief of the institute, the ministry reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, addressed the Uzbekistan-Turkey Business Forum held as part of the state visit of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was also present in the forum, to Uzbekistan.

Uzbek President Mirziyoyev and Turkish President Erdoğan made press statements at the Kuksaroy residence in the capital Tashkent after bilateral talks between the delegations. Before the event, the heads of state signed a Joint Declaration aimed at improving the Uzbekistan-Turkey ties.

Following the welcome ceremony at Kuksaray residence, Mirziyoyev and Erdoğan met in tête-à-tête, which lasted for about 2 hours.

The off-budgetary pension fund under the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan has posted for public discussion the draft Uzbekistan’s Pension System Reforming Concept.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last evening arrived in Uzbekistan on a state visit. According to UzA at the Islam Karimov airport the Turkish leader was welcomed by the Uzbek PM Aripov.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday hosted the Pakistan delegation led by Army Chief of Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the presidential press service reported.

Uzbekistan and Turkey will sign various area interstate, intergovernmental and interdepartmental accords, as well as a number of investment deals as part of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Tashkent on 29 April-1 May 2018, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.