Mirziyoyev named acting Uzbek president

作者: The AsiaN Editor on 9 September , 2016.
类别: All, Asia, Central Asia, News, Politics
标签: Shavkat Mirziyoyev

(160903) -- SAMARKAND, Sept. 3, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoev conducts the funeral of the late president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 3, 2016. The funeral of the late president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was held in the historic town of Samarkand, where he was born. (Xinhua/Sadat) (syq)

SAMARKAND, Sept. 3, 2016 (Xinhua) — Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoev conducted the funeral of the late president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 3, 2016. The funeral of the late president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was held in the historic town of Samarkand, where he was born. (Xinhua/Sadat) (syq)

Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been appointed the acting president by a decision of a joint meeting of the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan’s Parliament Sept. 8.

Mirziyoyev was born July 24, 1957. In 1981, Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. He served as governor of Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh region from 1996 to September 2001, then as a governor of Samarqand region from September 2001 until his appointment as prime minister in 2003.

In accordance with results of a parliamentary election in January 2015, he was reappointed as head of the government of Uzbekistan.

The first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov passed away Sept. 2 at the age of 78 after a stroke. (Trend.az)