President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday signed Measures for Improvement of Pharmaceutical Industry Management System Decree creating the Agency for Development of Pharmaceutical Industry under the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan. The state-run joint-stock UzPharmSanoat group of companies has been liquidated.

First Deputy Chairman of the Uzbek Senate and Uzbekistan’s Governor at the EBRD Sodiq Safoev met with the EBRD First Vice President Philip Bennett.

Orhan Sivrikaya has joined Uzbekistan Airways as strategic business development advisor, the company said in a statement. The issue of engaging a Turkish advisor was arranged during Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Turkey state visit in October.

“Central Asia: One Past and a Common Future, Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Mutual Prosperity” conference will take place in Samarkand on November 10-11 under the auspices of the United Nations, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The October 18 Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan Resolution has approved a single system for collection, surrender and processing of non-ferrous metal scrap in the country.

Uzbekistan plans to step-by-step introduce a self-financed private notaries system. The process of transformation of public notary offices into private will be launched on January 1, 2018. The relevant draft president’s decree, developed by the Ministry of Justice, was published for public consultation.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday sent condolences to his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, on a deadly shooting in the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas, which left 27 people dead and injured at least 20 others, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

EBRD First Vice President Phil Bennett will visit Uzbekistan this week to meet Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and other senior officials and speak at the International Conference on Security and Sustainable Development in Central Asia. He will also open a new office of the Bank in the capital, Tashkent, on Wednesday, 8 November, which demonstrates the EBRD’s new stage of engagement with Uzbekistan.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Sharof Rashidov's daughter Sayyora Rashidova opened a monument to Sharaf Rashidov in Jizzakh city today. The ceremony was held on the ocssion of the 100th anniversary of the an outstanding statesman and writer, UzA reported.

The population of Uzbekistan as of October 1 stood at 32.519 million people, an increase by 391,4 thousand from 31 December 2016, or by 1.2%. The urban population is 16.451 million (or 50.6% of total population), and the rural population is 16.060 million (49.4%), it said in the Statistics Committee’s Q3 report.

Solemn events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the state and public figure Sharaf Rashidov will today take place in his home town of Jizzakh. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Jizzakh to attend the events, UzA said.

Rolling stock of the future skyrail ring line will be produced in Uzbekistan, Oybek Khudoikulov, the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan Railways/head of Tashkent Metro Company announced at the meeting of International press club.

The Government of Uzbekistan issued a Measures to Set up Press service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan Resolution.

Uzbekistan intends to give new momentum to its membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov saidat said at the meeting of the Heads of Government Council of the CIS member-states in Tashkent Friday. This is the first time Uzbekistan is hosting the event.

Uzbekistan will open its embassy in Minsk, the capital of Belarus,, with the appointment of an ambassador due in the near future, this was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with the Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday received the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who arrived in Uzbekistan on an official visit and to attend the next meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government, UzA said.

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov today held talks with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Tashkent. The heads of the governments of Uzbekistan and Russia discussed military-technical cooperation, labor migration and energy projects.

At a meeting with local authorities during Fergana trip in June 2017 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev harshly criticized the local tax authorities, with the footage posted on Youtube only on October 31.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday hosted the Under-Secretary-General of the UN, UNODC’s Executive Director, Yuri Fedotov. Shavkat Mirziyoyev noted with deep satisfaction the pace that partnership  ties of Uzbekistan with the UN and its bodies are developing.

Sayfulla Saipov, 29, a native of Uzbekistan, is suspected of a terrorist attack in New York which killed eight people and injured 11 when a pickup driver mowed down cyclists and pedestrians near the World Trade Center, before striking a school bus. The relevant agencies of the Republic of Uzbekistan confirm this suspicion, Jahon said in an official statement.