The Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov summed up the outcomes of the annual meeting of the IsDB Board of Directors in Tashkent at a press briefing Saturday.

The U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and others held at a camp in Uzbekistan already feared being sent back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So it was little comfort when an Uzbek guard unsympathetically quipped the other day: "You can't stay here forever", Reuters said in a story.

The 46th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Islamic Development Bank is being held in Tashkent.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 689 people diagnosed with coronavirus in Uzbekistan yesterday. 

A new departure hall opened at the Tashkent’s international airport. New equipment has been installed in the departure hall, with green and red channels, 12 passenger check-in counters, 6 passport and border control points, Wi-Fi and Duty Free shops, a cafe, mothers’ and children’s room, exit for telescopic ladder and two gates for exiting the buses.

The procedure that related to the stay of foreign nationals in Uzbekistan under lockdown conditions in effect since September last year will be canceled from September 10. The government of Uzbekistan issued a decree on this on August 30.

On September 2, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the President of the Islamic Development Bank Muhammad bin Sulaiman Al-Jasser, who arrived to attend the 46th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Tashkent, the presidential press service said.

Germany donated 10,000 doses of the combined drug Casirivimab/Imdevimab to Uzbekistan, the press Ministry of Health reported.

Azim Akhmadhojaev has been appointed first deputy minister of energy, a source in the government told the Tashkent Times.

The Taliban movement sent a congratulatory message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the country's independence, announced the official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Yusup Qobuljonov.

As per the Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission’s decision, 3 international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) have been registered for the presidential elections in Uzbekistan. This was announced at the August 30 regular meeting of the Central Election Commission.

90 thousand doses of the second component of Sputnik V vaccine were delivered to Tashkent. According to the Ministry of Health, Uzbekistan has to date received 17.9 million doses of various vaccines.

The President of Uzbekistan signed a decree by on August 28 creating a branch of the Kazan Federal University in Jizzakh city on Monday.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry denied information about Uzbekistan being willing to open its borders to people fleeing from Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Pardoning a group of persons serving a sentence who sincerely repented of their deeds and firmly embarked on the path of correction Decree ahead of the Independence Day on September 1, with various pardon measures applied in relation 215 citizens.

On August 28, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev spoke to the President of the European Council Charles Michel over the telephone.

On August 28, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Nakanishi Satoshi, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The first private photovoltaic 100 MW capacity plant with is being launched in the Karmana district of the Navoi province. During his visit to the province, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took part in the launching ceremony, press secretary of the head of state Sherzod Asadov said.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his visit to Navoi province today spoke about the situation in Afghanistan. An audio recording of his words was published by a lawyer and blogger, the deputy chief of the National Information Agency (UzA) Khushnudbek Khudayberdiev.

In the Tashkent metro, it will be possible to use the services of all mobile operators, the Ministry of Transport and the Tashkent metro said at a briefing.