The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2019 in Gujarat on January 18-20 in India, the First Deputy Foreign Minister Ilkhom Nematov announced during the International Press Club meeting Wednesday.

The founding congress of the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan was held in Tashkent Tuesday. During the event, the members approved the party’s charter and program and elected members of the central council and central control-auditing commission.

Kyrgyzstan government delegation led by Foreign Minister Chingiz Aydarbekov will visit Uzbekistan on January 10, Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The Uzbek Public Education Ministry has rejected Russia's proposal to deploy teachers to Uzbekistan schools, the Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan said in a statement.

Sino plant in Samarkand was found bankrupt last summer. held at the Uzeltehsanoat Association gave detailed information about the plant at a briefing Monday.

The creation of the National Center for Defense Management is envisaged by the draft 2019 State Program. The Ministries of Defense and Emergency, the State Security Service, the State Defense Industry Committee, the National Guard and the State Customs Committee will be tasked with developing a program of measures to enhance Uzbekistan’s defense and enhance the combat capacities of the Uzbek Armed Forces.

The trial behind closed doors against the former Prosecutor General Rashitjon Kadirov began in the Yunusabad district criminal court, a source in the Prosecutor General’s Office told Tashkent Times.

The consultative meeting of the Central Asian leaders will be held in Tashkent. This is stated in the draft 2019 State Program “Year of Active Investments and Social Development”.

The deputy governor of Andijan province Salombek Khabibullaev responsible for investments, innovation, assistance to privatized enterprises, development of small industrial zones and promoting tourism, died yesterday of myocardial infarction aged 48, the Ministry of Health said.

A set of measures will be implemented in Uzbekistan to develop transport logistics, expand overseas and domestic routes and improve the quality of transport services. This is provided for by the Tourism Sector Development Concept for 2019-2025, approved by the President's Additional Measures for Swift Development of Tourism in the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree of January 5.

Nationals of 109 countries can get a residence permit in Uzbekistan when they purchase real estate. This was stated in the President's Additional Measures for Swift Development of Tourism in the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree of January 5.

Uzbekistan hotels will allow guests to stay together "regardless of their residence inscription (propiska), citizenship, kinship and marital relations, as well as other factors that restrict the right to privacy." This was emphasized in the President's Additional Measures for Swift Development of Tourism in the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree of January 5.

The maiden International Bakhshi Art Festival will be held in Termez city of Surkhandarya province on April 5-10, 2019 at the initiative of the Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit the Federal Republic of Germany on January 20-22. As part of preparation for the visit, Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, heading a government delegation to Berlin on November 8, 2018, met with the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, with whom he discussed the prospects of cooperation within Uzbekistan-EU format and touched upon the situation in Afghanistan. Minister Kamilov also met with the German Chancellor's Foreign and Security Policy Adviser Jan Hecker in Berlin.

Migration departments in Tashkent’s 11 districts began to accept documents for issuing international passports as of January 4, Tashkent Migration and Citizenship Department said.

Mohamed Iltaf Sheikh, a 77-year-old Tory peer who founded the Conservative Muslim Forum has married an Uzbek student, Guli Murodova, who is 45 years younger than him, DailyMail said Saturday.

Uzbekistan's cooperation with the Central Asian countries on security and other regional affairs will be stepped up, the draft 2019 State Program said.

On December 29, 2018, the Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Başar Şen, who is ending his diplomatic posting in Uzbekistan.

Five girls died in Urikzor mahalla in Zangiata district of Tashkent province on the night of December 29 from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Development Strategy Center has published the draft 2019 State Program “The Year of Active Investments and Social Development” for public consultation. Discussion will last until January 15.