Uzbekistan's airports reported an rise in passenger traffic, with a 42% growth in Q1, 2024, serving 3.1 mln passengers, Uzbekistan Airports said in a quarterly report.

Uzbekistan and China inked a memorandum of understanding with the goal of bolstering collaboration in the social protection, the Uzbek Social Protection Agency said today.

A new project intended to support financing of the Green Development in Uzbekistan co-financed by European Union, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to help the Government in establishing an integrated approach towards identification, assessment, and integration of potential sources of financing for achieving the country’s green priorities and objectives, further mainstreaming green considerations into the budgetary process through a full-scale introduction of green budgeting methodologies, streamlining and using public finance more effectively as well as piloting and introducing new innovative financing instruments.

On the basis of profiling, Delhi IGI Airport Customs authorities have seized 5000 grams of gold valued at 380 thousand USD from two Uzbekistan nationals who arrived from Dubai. The passengers have been arrested under Customs Act, 1962. Further investigation is underway.

Uzbekistan delegation headed by the Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov will pay an official visit to Pakistan on May 8-9, his spoekesman Ahror Burkhanov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Student tried to set fire to the Israeli embassy in Tashkent city. According to the court document, A.A., 20, 2nd-year student of the University of World Languages. In the early morning of October 19, 2023, he tried to set fire to the Israeli embassy.

The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Moscow on a working visit on May 8-9, the presidential press service said.

The price of a Tashkent-Andijan toll road is estimated at US$ 4.65 billion dollars, the Deputy Minister of Transport Jasurbek Choriev said this on May 2 at the Tashkent International Investment Forum.

Procession of military units will take place on Wednesday on Tashkent streets, the press service of the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

On the sidelines of the Tashkent Investment Forum, the First Deputy Minister of Energy/Director of Uzatom Agency Azim Akhmedkhadzhaev said told at what stage the negotiations with Russia were at with respect to the Uzbekistan nuclear power plant project.

Uzbekistan and Bangladesh are going to resume direct flights once again, the Financial Express said.

Сhina CAMC Engineering (CAMCE) vows to build the first waste incineration plant in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Ministry of Environment said.

Deals totaling $26.6 billion were inked at the 3rd edition of the Tashkent International Investment Forum, the press service of the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the military parade on the ocassion of the 79th anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 war in Moscow on May 9. The Kremlin’s press service said.

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1. Embassy of Pakistan requires the services of a well reputed Transport company for provision of required vehicles, during Pakistan Single Country Exhibition (PSCE) from 28th June to 30th June, 2024 at the UzExpo Centre and Logistics Forum (herein after called the Forum) on 29th June, 2024 at the Crystal Ballroom, International Hotel, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Uzbek nationals are not facing problems of entering the Russian territory through checkpoints at Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, and Domodedovo airports in Moscow, neither are they facing detentions, said the representative office of the Agency for External Labor Migration in Russia in a statement. He added that the representative office conducted monitoring and negotiations on this matter with responsible employees of the above-mentioned airports.

Uzgidromet announced the Tashkent city weather forecast for the weekend. On May 3, intermittent rain is possible in the afternoon, it could rain at night and in the morning on May 4, and on May 5.

On the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum and the meeting of the Foreign Investors Council today the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted a delegation led by the chairperson of the US-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce Carolyn Lamm, the presidential press service said. 

Uzbekistan ranked 148 out of 180 in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index published by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country slipped 11 positions in the ranking since the previous ranking. The situation with media freedom in the country is estimated as “very difficult.”