ISLAM KARIMOV the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Исполнитель

ISLAM KARIMOV the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Islam Abduganievich Karimov was born on January 30, 1938, in the city of Samarkand to the family of a professional worker. He is an ethnic Uzbek. He graduated from Central Asian Polytechnical Institute and Tashkent Institute of National Economy with diplomas in Mechanical Engineering and Economy.

In 1960 he began his working career in the “Tashselmash” plant. Between 1961-1966 he worked in Tashkent aircraft building plant, named after V.P. Chkalov as an engineer and a leading engineer-designer.

In 1966 he began working for the State Planning Committee of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR), where he was promoted from Chief Specialist to First Deputy Chairman.

In 1983 I.Karimov was appointed as the Minister of Finance and in 1986 as the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Chairman of the State Planning Committee.

Between 1986-1989 he worked as a First Secretary of the Kashka-Darya Regional Party Committee.

In 1966 he joined “Gosplan” of the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, where he rose from a senior specialist of a scientific department to First Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) of the Uzbek Republic. In 1983 Islam Karimov was appointed Finance Minister of the Republic. In 1986 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, then Chairman of the Gosplan of the Republic. In 1986 he occupied a number of leading posts in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan.

On March 24, 1990, Islam Karimov was elected president of the republic at a parliamentary session. A year later the people of Uzbekistan endorsed the decisions of Parliament and on December 29, 1991, Islam Karimov, Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, was elected president of the independent Republic of Uzbekistan,

Control Questions

1. Where was Islam Karimov born?
2. How old is he?
3. List the jobs he has had.

Discussion Questions

1. Would you want to be a president? Why?
2. What qualities does a person make a good president?