Sodiq Safoyev

Sodiq Safoyev (born February 3, 1954 in Tashkent ; also Sadyk Safayev ) is an Uzbek politician .

Safoyev graduated from Tashkent State University in 1976 with a degree in economics. There he taught after his studies and was active as a senior professor until 1987. From 1987 to 1990 he held a leading position in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek USSR. From 1990 to 1991, Safoyev was a senior researcher at the Institute for Industrial Productivity Research of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and did an internship at Harvard University in the USA .

Safoyev began his career in the Uzbek government as deputy foreign trade minister. In 1993 he became Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan. After only a year, however, he moved to Berlin as ambassador . He briefly returned to Uzbekistan in 1996 as an advisor to the President. In the same year he became Uzbek Ambassador to the United States. 2001 Safoyev went as a representative of the Uzbek president to Afghanistan . At the same time he was appointed deputy foreign minister. In 2002 he returned to Uzbekistan and on March 14 of the following year took over the post of Foreign Minister for the second time. In 2005 he was replaced by Elyor Gʻaniyev .

Web links

• Short biography (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Узбекистан: В большую политику возвращается Садык Сафаев - бывший "прозападный" министр иностранных дел. December 14, 2016, accessed September 3, 2019 (Russian).