More than 400 Afghan citizens temporarily staying in Uzbekistan were involved in a project to plant greenery in the Surkhandarya region in the south of the republic, the press service of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Uzbekistan said on Friday.

The best universities, leading universities and colleges of the CIS will take part in the V International Exhibition of Eurasian Education, which will be held in Bishkek on March 27-29, ru.sputnik.kg reports.

Embassies of Turkmenistan abroad invite Turkmen citizens to vote in the elections of deputies of the Mejlis of the seventh convocation. Diplomatic missions of the country in dozens of cities around the world announced the opening of polling stations on their pages in social networks.

A large—scale landscaping campaign has begun in Turkmenistan today, which traditionally takes place twice a year - in spring and autumn. Employees of various structures and students take part in the planting of seedlings.

The Turkish Presidential Administration's Communications Department has prepared a book titled "Disaster of the Century: The February 6, 2023 Kahramanmarash Earthquake" for publication, Anadolu agency reports.

Turkmen technology companies Agzybirlik tilsimaty and Aýdyń Gijeler will conclude a contract with the Ministry of Education of the country for the production and supply of laptops to educational institutions until August 1, 2023 and for their maintenance.

Uzbekistan announced the proposal to create a single payment system in Central Asia at a meeting of the Council of the Framework Agreement on Trade and Investment between the governments of the United States and Central Asian countries (TIFA), held in Samarkand, the Uzbek press reports.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev proposed at an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) to establish in Tashkent a center for monitoring and analyzing natural disasters within the framework of the OTS. This was reported by the press service of the Uzbek President.

Maya Orazmuradova, winner of the Handmade Exports 2021 final competition, is taking part in the international exhibition Wohnen & Interieur, which takes place from March 15 to 19 in Vienna (Austria).

The early stage of voting in the framework of the elections of deputies to the Turkmen parliament started on March 16, and all 2,644 polling stations, including 42 abroad, are fully ready for the start of the election campaign, the country's CEC reports.