Shavkat Mirziyaev, the president of Uzbekistan had signed a decree on 6^th December. The decree states that the citizens of countries including Japan, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, Luxembourg, Spain, Germany, Britain, Australia, Austria would now be capable of entering the country without a visa for tourism purposes for about 30 days.

The decree also states that citizens aged 55 or over from the United States, Belgium, France, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Israel can enter Uzbekistan without a visa for up to 30 days for tourism purposes.

The travellers from all these 27 countries would have to pay a fee amounting to US$50 as the entrance fees.

And, the decree is scheduled to come into effect from 1^st April, 2017.

On 4^th December, 2016, Mirziyaev was elected as the president of Uzbekistan that is the most populous country of post-Soviet Central Asia.