The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida over the telephone on Thursday, the presidential press service said.

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov made remarks at the third meeting of foreign ministers in the Central Asia-China format.

OneWeb plans to enter the Uzbek market. The company representatives made proposals for the provision of high-speed broadband Internet to provinces and remote rural areas, various enterprises via OneWeb satellites.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a $142 million concessional credit for Uzbekistan. The financing will support a project that aims to increase the area under sustainable landscape management, restore degraded forested lands in various regions of the country, and promote Uzbekistan’s collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration.

Recent developments: The Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian crisis, set back economic growth in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and beyond, and heightened global geopolitical instability. The invasion has devastated Ukraine's economy, while international sanctions have caused output to plummet in Russia. The largest spillovers of the war are likely to be through higher commodity prices and weaker external demand from the euro area.

On May 31, at about 8:30 am, unidentified persons broke the lock, entered the apartment of a 36-year-old Chinese citizen in Yakkasaray district of Tashkent and stole a safe containing 265,000 US dollars. This was announced on June 9 by the press service of the Investigation Department under the Interior Ministry.

The top 10 countries in Uzbekistan's imports have been announcedб the State Statistics Committee said in a report. Reportedly, in January-April 2022, China was the top country among partner countries with the highest share in Uzbekistan's imports - $2.3 billion.

At a meeting of the Board on Thursday, the Central Bank decided to cut the interest rate by 1 percentage point to 16% per annum, the Bank said in a statement.

Today, Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed. The UN delegation also included the head of the UN Economic Commission for Europe Olga Algayerova and the UN Resident Coordinator, Roli Asthana, the presidential press service said.

The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization distributed a notice on the date of the fifth meeting of the working group on Uzbekistan's accession to the WTO.

Uzbekistan and Russia increased the period of stay of citizens on a mutual basis without registration up to 15 days. This is provided for by an treaty between the governments of the two countries, which took effect on June 4, Dunyo reported.

The Ministry of Transport has issued a flight permit for Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, Uzbek Ambassador to the UAE Abdulaziz Akkulov said.

On June 2, in the afternoon in Urgench, Khorezm province, the driver of a GM Cobalt, which was standing on the side of a busy street, was brutally killed. Surveillance video footage of the incident has surfaced on social media.

Today, a new joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (MEDPR) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) was launched to strengthen the capacity of rural communities in infrastructure management in the Aral Sea region.

The President signed Ratification of an International Treaty Decree. According to the Huquqiy Akhborot (Legal Information), the Decree approved the air services treaty between the governments of Uzbekistan and Qatar.

The Transcarpathian region of Ukraine received humanitarian aid from Uzbekistan on June 6, said the head of the region, Viktor Mikita.

In April, the world's Central Banks bought 19.4 tons of gold into foreign exchange after selling 9.4 tons in March, the World Gold Council said on Tuesday.

Andijan city mayor Bahromjon Khaydarov was detained as a suspect in a criminal case of embezzlement of budget funds on a large scale, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

The Deputy Secretary-General will travel to Central Asia from 5-12 June 2022 to represent the Secretary-General at the Second International High-Level Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028 in Tajikistan (7-8) and following the invitation from other countries in the region, the Deputy Secretary-General will also visit Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. 

All coronavirus restrictions for entry into Uzbekistan by air, through border railway stations and border checkpoints will be lifted as of June 10, the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage said with reference to the decision of the Republican Special Anti-Covid Commission.