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Uzbekistan will participate in activities of the working group on development of the Agreement on free trade zone of services between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In this regard, an interdepartmental working group headed by the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Jamshid Khodjaev was established in the country. The working group includes the Ministries of Finance, Economy, Justice, Foreign Affairs, Public Education, Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the State Committee for Investments, the Central Bank, the Agency of Automobile Transport, Uzbekistan Railways and Uzbekistan Airways.

On August 5, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the External Affairs Minister of the Republic of India Sushma Swaraj. This was reported by the Press Service of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

August 1, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine Riad al-Malki, who arrived in Tashkent at the head of the Palestinian delegation.

On August 1, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Suma Chakrabarti.

On July 10, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting dedicated to issues of implementation of organizational and technical measures for creating nuclear power engineering in the country.

The Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan from July 4, 2018 introduces new regulations to further optimize the order of entry of foreign citizens to the Republic of Uzbekistan.

On July 1, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the Governor General Julie Payette on Canada Day.

Advisor positions on trade and economic issues have been created in staffing tables of the embassies of Uzbekistan in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan by the resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of July 1, 2018. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Tashkent has hosted an international conference “Joint actions to mitigate the consequences of the Aral catastrophe: new approaches, innovative solutions, investments”.

The Resolution outlines a plan of action for the implementation of the project, the main roles of the participants in the course of construction, expertise of the technical task of the tender documentation for the purchase of equipment and materials.