Latest news in Uzbekistan? September 13th, 2026
13-09-2026
- President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Seoul today on a three-day state visit to South Korea to deepen strategic partnership, investment, and digital cooperation, alongside meeting local Uzbek diaspora.
- Embraer presented Uzbekistan’s first KC/C-390 Millennium transport/tanker aircraft (tail UK 39010) on September 10, making Uzbekistan the first Central Asian operator of the aircraft type to replace legacy Soviet-era airlifters.
- The Uzbek Senate recently approved a revised Latin-based alphabet reform streamlining 28 letters, replacing compound digraphs like sh, ch, o’, g’ with single dedicated characters.
- Specific criminal liability has been introduced for building illegal cross-border tunnels.
- Summer 2026 was officially recorded as the second-hottest summer in Uzbekistan’s observational history.