Since July 15, Uzbekistan has temporarily limited the exports of locally produced gasoline and diesel fuel. This is provided for by the Minutes of the Meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, approved on July 16, two sources in the oil and gas sector and in the government told the Tashkent Times.

The Legislative Chamber and the Senate at a joint meeting on Wednesday evening approved the decree of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the early termination of the state of emergency in Karakalpakstan. The joint resolution of the chambers of parliament entered into force on the same day.

Today, on July 20, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the invitation of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, arrived in the city of Cholpon-Ata.

In the first year-half, the rates of injuries and deaths in road traffic accidents, as well as their total number, decreased in Uzbekistan, the press service of the traffic police reported.

On July 19, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the visiting Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili. The parties considered prospects for promoting joint projects and programs of cooperation between the two countries, primarily in the field of transport and logistics, trade, and industrial cooperation.

The Center for Hydrometeorology announced the weather forecast in Tashkent city for Thursday, July 21. The weather in Tashkent will be slightly cloudy, with no precipitation expected. The wind will blow from east at 3-8 m/s. The temperature will be 24-26 degrees at night and 41-43 degrees during the day.

Today, the Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov hosted the chief of the Needs Assessment Mission (NAM) of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) Vladimir Misev.

Over 15 billion soums (USD 1.35 million) were spent to hold the Tashkent International Investment Forum. For example, an agreement was signed with Sky Events LLC on the purchase of 1.5-liter Coca-Cola drink for 32 thousand soums (retail price at grocery store is 10,000 soums), and Sochnaya Dolina juices for 48 thousand soums (retail price at grocery store is 13,000 soums).

The construction of a prefabricated houses production factory has commenced in Qorgontepa. According to UzA, the Qorgontepa district of Andijon province is one of the remote territories of the country.

On July 19 the Acting Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov met with Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili, who arrived in Uzbekistan as part of a delegation led by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.

Strong wind and dust storm are observed in the border areas of Kashkadarya with Bukhara, announced the lead specialist of Uzhydromet Erkin Abdulahatov.

Officials of the Volleyball Federation and others are suspected of embezzling public funds on an especially large scale, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Tuesday.

Resident of Buloqboshi district of Andijan province, A.I., has been giving private religious lessons Since 2020 to children from Uzbekistan and neighboring Kyrgyzstan at home “without the appropriate religious knowledge and permits,” the provincial police department reported.

The State Statistics Committee on Monday unveiled information on how many tourists and from which country visited Uzbekistan in June.

One of the deputy mayors of Oqoltin district was detained while receiving $400 in a bribe from the head of a local enterprise in his office in an operation carried out by State Security Service officers of Sirdaryo province, the State Security Service reported.

Tashkent hosted the next congress of the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF), at which Uzbekistan was selected to host the 2024 Asian Championships, the National Olympic Committee said.

On Monday, a Georgian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili arrived in Tashkent on an official visit. At the airport, he was welcomed by the Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Deputy Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Jamshid Khodjaev and other officials, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade said.

Samarkand will host the conference European Union-Central Asia on November 17-18. The Samarkand EU Conference on Sustainable Connectivity with Central Asia will be the first regional connectivity conference under the new EU Global Gateway strategy adopted on 1 December 2021.

$34.1 million worth of 1,125 electric vehicles were imported to Uzbekistan in January-June 2022, the State Statistics Committee said in a report on Monday.

Hot weather will continue in the first half of the week in Uzbekistan, the Uzhydromet reported. The air temperature across the country will be within +38…+43 degrees, in the south and the desert zone in some places up to +44…+45.