Two-day international Conference on ICT in Basic Education, organized by the Ministry of Public Education (MoPE) and the Asian Development Bank, started today, 11 November at the Intercontinental Hotel.

Development of cellular service market in Uzbekistan has overcome all expectations, participants of a presentation dedicated to first million subscribers of mobile services in the country pointed out.

On November 9 President Islam Karimov received ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda, presidential press service reported.

Extraordinary session of Tashkent Regional People?s Deputies Council was held on 7 November.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov is receiving congratulatory messages from heads of state of foreign countries on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, an Uzbek TV reported on 2 November.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received US Congressman and OSCE Parliamentarian Assembly\'s President Alcee Hastings at presidential residence Oqsaroy on 2 November.

Presentation of global campaign ?Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS? was held in Tashkent today.

Chairman of interstate council of Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and President of Belarus Alexander Lukoshenko ordered to Secretary-General of EurAsEC Grigoriy Raporta to create working group on accession of Uzbekistan to organization.

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not yet ready to expand to include India and three other observers and will consider the issue in \"real earnest\" when the time is ripe, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Exhibition of the Uzbek applied art was held in Madrid and Barcelona, ?Jahon? of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported on 25 October.

International scientific and practical conference on Problems of Security in Central Asia was held in Tashkent Intercontinental Hotel on 21-22 October. The organizers of the conference were Institute of strategic and regional studies under the President of Uzbekistan and Russian Politics Fund, in association with Friedrich Ebert Foundation Office (Germany).

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov ratified an Uzbek-Chinese partnership agreement.

National Human Development Report ? 2005 was presented in Tashkent on 13 September.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met EU special representative for Central Asia Jan Kubis on 9 September in Tashkent.

The big event in the world?s cotton market ? the First International Uzbek Cotton Fair will take place in Tashkent. It will be held at the exhibition center ?Uzexpocenter? on October 10-11, 2005.

On 7 September, members of the working group to monitor the investigation of the events in Andijan met First Deputy Prosecutor-General of Uzbekistan A.Nabiyev.

Tashkent office of Samsung Electronics launched system of support, encouragement and work with partners of the company in three countries of the region (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan).

Address by President Islam Karimov at Festive Ceremony dedicated to 14th Anniversary of Independence of Uzbekistan

Grand celebrations of the 14th anniversary of Uzbekistan?s independence were held on 31 August at Alisher Navoi National Park in Tashkent.

A week-long Sharq Taronalari (Oriental Melodies) music festival ended in Samarkand on 30 August.