The UN Country Team in Uzbekistan welcomes the President’s Resolution on closing the prison in Jaslyk. This decision is in line with the long-standing recommendations of the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, including most recently at the 3rd UPR cycle (30th session of May 2018): “Close the Jaslyk prison colony, facilitate full and unhindered access for monitoring by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”

Cooperation Action Plan between the Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was signed on August 6, the Ministry of Defense said.

On August 6, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov was hosted by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the ministry said in a statement.

Tashkent city plans to deploy 40-strong tourist police, equipped with transport and uniforms, with currently 10 policemen dispatched to Tashkent tourist sites by September, the Tashkent city mayor’s office said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on celebration of Kurban Khayit (Eid al-Adha) on August 11 (Sunday), the Ministry of Justice said.

for the first time the Military Medical Relay Race is currently taking place at the Forish training ground in the Jizzakh province of Uzbekistan from August 4 to 17 as part of the Army International Army Games 2019, with military units from Armenia, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Vietnam, Russia, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The first meeting of the Supreme Council for Strategic Partnership, chaired by the presidents of Uzbekistan and Turkey, will be held this year in Ankara. This was announced on August 5 at the first meeting of the Joint Strategy Planning Group, chaired by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov and Turkey Mevlut Cavushoglu, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Turakurgan thermal power plant (TPP) in the Namangan province launched the first gas turbine, the Ministry of Energy said.

The Tashkent Interdistrict Economic Court ruled to cancel the agreement between the Uzbekistan government bodies and the Turkish company Demir Group for reconstruction of the former Chorsu hotel due to default by the Turkish company to perform its obligations with the set timelines, the State Assets Management Agency said.

The First Deputy Foreign Minister Ilkhom Nematov met with Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia at the Department of State Jim Kulikowski.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko adopted the Joint Statement following the bilateral talks in Minsk and oversaw the signing of 11 accords between the governments, ministries and companies of the two countries, the Uzbek presidential press service reported.

Presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held talks today at the Independence Palace in Minsk, the Uzbek President’s press service reported.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of nation-wide construction of the Great Ferghana Canal when 160 thousand peasants started digging works on the future riverline.

Uzbek PM Abdulla Aripov held talks with Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov as part of a working visit to Bishkek on Thursday.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Inter-Agency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Persons and International Organization for Migration (IOM) held an informational campaign on Tashkent’s Broadway to recognize World Day against Trafficking in Persons.

On July 29, the Government of Uzbekistan approved the draft Rights of Persons With Disabilities Bill to be submitted to the parliament, the Deputy PM Aziz Abdukhakimov said on his Facebook page.

In pursuance of the presidential decree on measures to improve the system of combating human trafficking and forced labor the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Employment were instructed to prepare a draft bill inserting liability for allowing child and forced labor into the Criminal Code.

On July 30, the Chairman of the Uzbekistan State Security Service (SSS), Lieutenant-General Azizov Abdusalom Abdumavlonovich on Tuesday called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on July 29 signed the Arms Bill into Law, passed by the Legislative Chamber on May 18 and approved by the Senate on June 21. The Law will take effect in six months.

A bust to the Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi was inaugurated on July 29 in Minsk as part of the first Uzbekistan-Belarus Provinces Forum, BelTA reported.