Within the framework of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Samarkand, a meeting was held between the Minister of Economy and Finance Sherzod Kudbiev and the Chairman of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) Hayashi Nobumitsu.

On May 12 this year, in Tashkent, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A. Aripov and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan K. Rasulzade, the regular 10th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Tajikistan was held.

On May 8-9 this year, Laziz Kudratov, Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade, paid a working visit to the State of Qatar, where he held talks with the heads of key ministries, departments and large companies of this country.

As part of the official visit of the delegation of Uzbekistan to Switzerland, Lake Sudochye was included in the list of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.

The Ministry of Natural Resources hosted a meeting between the Minister of Natural Resources Aziz Abdukhakimov and the UN Deputy Secretary General, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe Olga Algayerova.

Issues of preparing and holding a referendum on introducing amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan were considered at a meeting of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev with the Head of the OSCE/ODIHR mission Albert Jónsson, on April 20.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the presentation on the progress and prospects of the process of joining the World Trade Organization.