Taliban positively assessed the trips of their delegations to Uzbekistan, Russia and Qatar, stated on Saturday the Deputy Minister of Information and Culture in the caretaker Afghan Cabinet of Ministers Zabihullah Mujahid.

Uzbekistan became the 92nd member country of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the first state to join the union among the countries of Central Asia, the press service of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Hungary in 2022, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced.

The Uzbekistan Center for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communications (CAERC) of Azerbaijan.

At a meeting on October 29, the Central Election Commission decided to consider Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev elected to the post of President of Uzbekistan for the next five years.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, in an interview to the Russia 24 TV channel, answered the question of what would happen if Uzbekistan became a space of collision of interests of geopolitical opponents. The text of the interview was published by the press service of the Foreign Ministry.

The Ministry of Finance has developed draft amendments to the Tax Code. The draft is aimed at the implementation of the president’s Measures to further stimulate geological exploration and improve the taxation of subsoil users Decree.

On October 22-25, 2021, a high-level representative German delegation headed Dr Klaus Mangold, the Co-Chairman of the Europe-Uzbekistan Association for Economic Cooperation (EUROUZ) Supervisory Board and the Chairman of Mangold Consulting GmbH visited Uzbekistan to observe the Presidential elections.

On 27 October 2021, UNDP jointly the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan and with the WTO Secretariat organized two roundtables with representatives of business communities, government bodies and research institutes, during which participants discussed the current state of Uzbekistan's accession process to the WTO and the impact of accession on private sector development, as well as examined the main advantages and benefits of membership.

The Energy Minister Alisher Sultanov held a working meeting with the Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in St. Petersburg on October 28, the press service of the Energy Ministry said.

Afghan nationals who overstay their Uzbekistan visas will not be expelled to their homeland, since the border for individuals between the countries is still closed, an representative of the Interior Ministry said.

The Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov held talks with his Iranian counterpart, Hussein Amir Abdullahiyan in Tehran on Wednesday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted the Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Xiangchen Zhang, the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said.

As reported earlier, on October 27, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting on reforms in agriculture and problems in the activities of clusters and the ways to solve them, his spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On October 27, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the presidential press service said.

On October 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a government meeting on reforms in agriculture and problems in the activities of clusters, said the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov.

On October 27, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov attended the regular meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the countries neighboring Afghanistan, held in Tehran, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The National Electric Grids of Uzbekistan will build the country's first digital substation, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Wednesday.

The signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations of Uzbekistan and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation took place at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Uzbekistan Airways will increase frequency of Kyiv flights to from November 3, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.