The Harlem Globetrotters will once again continue their tradition of bringing goodwill to people all over the world as part of the U.S. State Department’s Sports Envoy program when they visit the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan between April 29 and May 6, where they will conduct youth basketball clinics as well as present their anti-bullying program, “T.E.A.M. Up at School.”

Two-way trade between Uzbekistan and Russia over the past two years increased by 20% - this is one of the highest rates among the CIS countries, the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin announced at the XX meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation Wednesday.

The main events of the visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to China commenced today on the morning of April 25 with a meeting with President of the PRC Xi Jinping.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday arrived in Beijing to attend the 2nd Belt And Road. The 40 heads of state, government and international and regional organizations have confirmed their participation.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated Volodymyr Zelensky on his landslide victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine, the Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

April 23--At an event today in Andijan, Gary Robbins, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Uzbekistan Country Director and Dr. Abduaziz Abduvasikov, Rector of the Andijan Branch of Tashkent State Agrarian University (TSAU) opened a new orchard and drip irrigation demonstration site, established with the support of USAID’s Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) project.  TSAU professors and students will use this site to conduct research and studies in fruit production and smart irrigation practices.

Uzbekistan has come to an agreement with the countries of Central Asia on water quotas for the 2019 season through Syrdarya and Amudarya river basins, the Uzbek Ministry of Water Management said.

The president signed the Additional Measures in to Enhance guarantees of Children’s Rights Decree introducing the Children’s Ombudsman in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Justice said.

The branch of the South Korean Kyung-in Women’s University will open in Tashkent as of 2019-2020 academic year, Uztekstilsanoat (Uz Textile Industry) said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the Chinese President Xi Jinping and will visit China on a working visit on April 24-27 to attend the second Belt and Road Forum, the presidential press service said.

To help boost local governance, ownership, and cooperation over shared water resources between upstream and downstream countries in Central Asia, today the United Statesfacilitated a second joint meeting of the Uzbek and Kygyz Padshaota River Small Basin Councils in Namangan, Uzbekistan.   The meeting was organized with assistance from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Smart Waters project, implemented by the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC), to enhance regional cooperation over shared water resources.

The American John Deere and the state-owned company Uztekstilsanoat (Uz Textile Industry) signed a contract for supply of agricultural machineries to Uzbekistan, Uztextilsanoat said.

For the first time, the Uzbek military will participate in tank biathlon competitions of the V International Army Games (ARMI-2019) on August 3–17, the Defence Ministry said.

The Uzbekistan government delegation led by Deputy PM Elyor Ganiev on April 16-17 visited the United States on a working visit, the Foreign Ministry.

The capsule-laying ceremony for the construction project of Hyundai Motor Uz Namangan plant was held Friday in Namangan’s Turakurgan district, Namangan Haqiqati (Truth) newspaper said.

Draft joint decree has been published on the portal for assessing the impact of legal norms, which proposes to scrap the List of jobs with unfavorable working conditions, where women are only partly, or not allowed to work at all.

President Moon Jae-in yesterday visited Inha University’s campus in Tashkent to see Uzbek and Korean medical teams jointly demonstrating telemedicine. 

On April 16, the regular plenary session of the Legislative Chamber, during which the MPs approved the draft Public-Private Partnership Bill conceptually in the first reading.

After the negotiations, the Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Moon Jae-in signed a Joint Declaration on Special Strategic Partnership between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Korea and oversaw the signing of bilateral accrods.

After the official welcoming ceremony, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in held talks in narrow and expanded formats.