The delegation of Uzbekistan headed by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov visited the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and held multilateral talks with the leadership of the Taliban. At the meetings, the issues of increasing the mutual trade turnover to 1 billion dollars in 2024 and to 3 billion dollars in the near future, organizing an exhibition of Uzbekistan products in Afghanistan, and ensuring the active work of Afghan entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan were discussed.

The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported that units of the Armed Forces of Armenia fired at the positions of Azerbaijani troops located in the direction of Khanza settlement of Ordubad district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Armenia denied these reports.

In Ukraine, where the war has been going on for almost two years, Uzbeks became the second among those who founded a new company after Turks. Since March 2022, Uzbek entrepreneurs have founded 312 companies. Turks - 396. Also, the largest number of Uzbek citizens have established business activities in the capital of Ukraine - 175 companies.

A regional forum-council of the heads of emergency situations ministries of Central Asian countries was held in Cholpon-Ota, near Issyk-Kol, Kyrgyzstan. At the event, it was emphasized that Central Asia remains a vulnerable region prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, and the need to strengthen mutual cooperation in protecting the population and regions from natural and man-made emergencies.

As September approaches, in the "advanced" stratum of our country in quotation marks, the issue of school uniforms will be raised to what extent our education level meets today's requirements.

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Erlikaya announced that it is planned to take fingerprints from foreigners at the country's airports, as in the USA and Britain. He also informed about the changes being made in the immigration policy of Turkey, in particular, the expected changes in obtaining a residence permit.

Kairat Satibaldi (Satibaldiuli), the nephew of the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarboev, returned to the state his illegally acquired property of 32.8 billion tenge or more than 1.6 billion dollars in two years.

Baku denied the reports of the presence of Israeli troops on the territory of Azerbaijan published by foreign media such as Iran International, Cannes and The Telegraph. We inform that there are no military forces of any foreign country on the territory of Azerbaijan, and we strongly condemn information manipulation based on false information in this regard," the statement said.

Turkish delegation headed by Ambassador of Turkey in Bamako Efe Ceylan met with Chief of General Staff of Mali General Omar Diarra. At the meeting, the Turkish military delegation confirmed its readiness to continue providing military assistance to the government of Mali in the fight against terrorist groups.

Usman Baratov, head of the Uzbek society "Vatandosh" in Russia, was imprisoned for four years. In January, after the news about the increase in the price of eggs in Russia, he posted a photo of chickens on his social network "Odnoklassniki" page and left a comment with the content: "Return the roosters from the war for eggs."