Works are ongoing to complete a new airfield complex and to commission new air navigation equipment at the Samarkand international airport. The airport’s closure will be extended until December 15, the Uzbekistan Airports said.

The president Mirziyoyev signed a decree appointing Bakhtiyor Islamov to the position of presidential adviser in charge of coordination of law enforcement and regulatory bodies to replace Rustam Inoyatov, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization is launching a three-year project in Uzbekistan and KyrgyzstanЖ “Improving access to services for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in primary health care”.

Uzbek and Kazakh military will conduct joint drill at the Termez district training ground from November 17 to 24, the Kazakh Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

UNDP in the frame of the UN Joint Programme on Social Protection in Uzbekistan delivered a capacity building training “Disability data collection, analysis and use”.

Brussels will host a meeting of the Uzbekistan-European Union Cooperation Council on November 15-17, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The temperatures in Uzbekistan will sharply drop from Wednesday, Uzhydromet reported. Reportedly, on November 16, a wet and cold air mass formed over the European territory of Russia (Moscow region) will cover the northern regions of Uzbekistan, and on November 17-18 the entire territory of the country through the Volga region.

The first summit of the Organization of Turkic States, which was created in place of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States, will be held in 2022 in Uzbekistan. This decision was made at the eighth summit of the Turkic Council in Istanbul on November 12, the presidential press service said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will hold talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week. “The President of Uzbekistan is going to Russia to hold talks with Putin.

Uzbekistan will carry out restoration of the Mazar-i-Sharif international airport, Balkh province, announced the special representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking Stateson November 12 in Istanbul , which will henceforth be called the Organization of Turkic States, said the President’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

As part of the United States Government’s comprehensive global response against the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently allocated an additional $2.5 million to Uzbekistan.

The Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey have begun steps to launch project for an electronic exchange of permit forms (E-permit).

The Russian state oil and gas company Zarubezhneft is considering buying a stake in Jizzakh Petroleum in Uzbekistan, Kommersant said referring to three sources.

In line with the Budget Code, the Accounts Chamber carried out an examination of the draft of the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2022 Law" and an analysis of the budget message for 2022.

On 10 November the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR donated 70 sets of computer equipment to the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics. The State Committee will use this equipment to digitalize the data collection process during the pilot census of November 2021, as well as the national population census scheduled for November 2023.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree appointing Behzod Musayev as Minister of Health, to replace Abdukhakim Khadzhibaev, who moved to the Federation of Trade Unions.

The South Korean Songuo Mobility Innovation plans to launch the production of electric vehicles in the Bukhara province, UzLiDeP party press service said.

Memorandum on Recruitment of Uzbek citizens in Slovakia was signed during the meeting between the First Deputy Minister of Employment and Labor Relations E. Muhiddinov, the head of the Foreign Labor Migration Agency H. Umarov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Slovakia to Uzbekistan J. Bori and T. Bretsk, an executive of SLOVMEDIA SK s.r.o. employment agency, the Migration Agency said.

321 new enterprises with Turkish investment were set up in Uzbekistan in January-October 2021, the State Statistics Committee said in a report.