Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (2016)

Shavkat Mirziyoyev Miromonovich ( Russian Шавкат Миромонович Мирзиёев or Мирзияев , Shavkat Miro Mono Petrovich Mirsijojew or Mirsijajew * 24. July 1957 in Zomin , Golodnostepskaja Oblast , Uzbek SSR , Soviet Union , today Province Jizzax ) is an Uzbek politician and since 14 December 2016 President of Uzbekistan .

Life

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (right) with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2016).

Mirziyoyev studied in Tashkent at the Institute of Mechanization and Irrigation Technology of Agriculture. He is a qualified mechanical engineer and a candidate in technical sciences . From 1974 until the fall of the Soviet Union , he worked in agriculture, especially in the field of irrigation technology. In the political field, he was active as a Komsomol secretary at his university . Later he also held posts in the organization of the CPSU and worked as a university lecturer.

In independent Uzbekistan he was the head of the administration of the Jizzax Province and from 2001 to 2003 of the Samarkand Province . From 1999 to 2004 Mirziyoyev was a member of the Oliy Majlis , the Uzbek parliament. In 2003 he was elected head of government on the proposal of President Karimov to succeed Oʻtkir Sultonov . In January 2005 he was reaffirmed in his office by parliament. Since no other political office is important besides the presidential office, Mirziyoyev was largely unknown as prime minister even in Uzbekistan.

After the death of President Karimov, Mirziyoyev was appointed provisional head of state on September 8, 2016 at a joint session of the two Uzbek chambers of parliament. He won the 2016 presidential election in Uzbekistan with 88.6% of the vote.

Travel to Germany

The first official visit by a head of state of the Republic of Uzbekistan after 18 years took place in January 2019. At the invitation of the German Chancellor, the Uzbek President arrived in Berlin on January 21, 2019. In Berlin he met Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble. In the run-up to the visit and in connection with the ongoing liberalization of the market in Uzbekistan, investment contracts with a volume of over 4 billion were signed at the German-Uzbek economic forum in Berlin.

Web links

• labyrinth.ru
• ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ: ЛЮДИ ИСЛАМА. КТО СТОИТ У РУЛЯ В КОРПОРАЦИИ "УЗБЕКИСТАН" ( Memento from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) eurasianhome.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Премьер Узбекистана стал новым руководителем республики on newsru.com, September 8, 2016.
2. ↑ On January 21 and 22, 2019, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan is on an official state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved January 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Государственный комитет Республики Узбекистан по инвестициям. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .