Shavkat Mirziyoyev

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Miromonovich and the family name is Mirziyoyev.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
President of Uzbekistan
Assumed office
8 September 2016
Prime Minister Himself
Preceded by Nigmatilla Yuldashev (Acting)
3rd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan
Assumed office
12 December 2003
President Islam Karimov
Nigmatilla Yuldashev (Acting)
Himself (Interim)
Deputy Ergash Shoismatov
Preceded by O‘tkir Sultonov
Personal details
Born Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev
(1957-07-24) 24 July 1957
Jizzakh Region, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Self-Sacrifice National
Democratic Party (Before 2008)
National Revival Democratic
Party (2008–2016)
Liberal Democratic Party (2016–present)
Religion Islam

Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (Russified forms also used: Шавкат Мираманович Мирзиёев, Šavkat Miramanovič Mirzijojev; Шавкат Мирзияев, Šavkat Mirzijajev) (born 24 July 1957[1][2]) is an Uzbek politician who has been Prime Minister of Uzbekistan since 2003.[3][4] Following the death of President Islam Karimov, he was appointed by the Supreme Assembly as interim President of Uzbekistan on 8 September 2016.[5]

Life and career

In 1981, Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. He holds a Candidate (PhD) degree in Technological Sciences.[6]

He served as governor (Hakim) of Jizzakh Region from 1996 to September 2001, then as governor of Samarqand Region from September 2001 until his appointment as Prime Minister in 2003.[3] He was nominated as Prime Minister by President Islam Karimov on December 12, 2003 and approved by the Uzbek parliament. He replaced Prime Minister O‘tkir Sultonov. His deputy is Ergash Shoismatov.[7]

Mirziyoyev and Han Myeong-sook, the Prime Minister of South Korea, met in Tashkent on 25 September 2006. They signed several agreements, including one deal in which Uzbekistan will send 300 tons of Uzbek uranium ore to South Korea every year from 2010 to 2014. The deal bypasses U.S. companies that acted previously as middlemen for South Korean imports of Uzbek uranium ore. Han also met with President Islam Karimov and parliament speaker Erkin Xalilov. Sook and Mirziyayev boosted cooperation in the energy, agriculture, construction, architecture, and information technology sectors. Trade between South Korea and Uzbekistan increased by nearly 40% between 2005 and 2006, to $565 million.[4]

Interim President

A member of the Samarkand clan, he was considered to be one of the leading potential successors to Islam Karimov as President of Uzbekistan. Mirziyoyev was reported to have friendly relations with Karimov's wife, Tatyana Karimova, and National Security Council chairman Rustam Inoyatov.[8] Some outside observers expressed concern about his alleged propensity for violence, however; he was said to have once violently confronted a farmer while governor of Jizzakh Region.[9]

After the death of Karimov was announced on 2 September 2016, Mirziyoyev was appointed as head of the committee organizing the funeral of the President.[10] That was taken as a sign that Mirziyoyev would succeed Karimov as President.[6] On 8 September 2016 he was appointed as Interim President of Uzbekistan by a joint session of both houses of parliament. Although the Chairman of the Senate, Nigmatilla Yuldashev, was constitutionally designated as Karimov's successor, Yuldashev proposed that Mirziyoyev take the post of Interim President instead in light of Mirziyoyev's "many years of experience".[11] There are expectations that Mirziyoyev will fix Uzbek relations with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.[12]

The electoral commission announced on 16 September that Mirziyoyev would stand in the December 2016 presidential election as the candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party.[13]

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Political offices
Preceded by
O‘tkir Sultonov		 Prime Minister of Uzbekistan
2003–present 		Incumbent
Preceded by
Nigmatilla Yuldashev
Acting		 President of Uzbekistan
Interim
2016–present 		Incumbent
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