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Uzbekistan is developing rapidly and its recently updated constitution will be a basis for the next stage of development, the government says. / bne IntelliNews
New Uzbekistan: development, innovation and enlightenment
Ben Aris in Tashkent
Uzbekistan is undergoing a rapid and profound transformation since President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took over in 2016, and those reforms are already starting to bear fruit. Incomes are rising, privatisation is underway and the economy is growing at an average of around 6% a year, despite the polycrisis that is sweeping the world. But the bulk of the hard work lies ahead. Senior government officials and international advisors and partners gathered in Tashkent on July 4-7 to review the progress so far and outline the challenges that are on the road ahead.
“We’re living in a challenging world today. Some scholars define it as the momentum of a polycrisis... The question is: what we can do to overcome this crisis? How will we overcome
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the challenges which humanity
faces, and the normal response and natural response is dialogue – an open discussion, which could create more trust, create confidence and create or bring consolidation of our efforts. And
I think this event exactly aims this purpose, creating platform for broad dialogue between different nations, cultures, languages, countries,” Sodiq Safoyev, the first deputy chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan, told delegates in a new conference centre in the capital, Tashkent that had
been built in only 40 days by leading Uzbek construction company Enter Engineering – a symbol of Uzbekistan Rising, as followed by
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Mirziyoyev is in a rush to create a
new, modern country as a torrent of reforms emerges from the president’s office. And he is under pressure to work quickly, as Uzbekistan is one of the only countries in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) that is enjoying a fast growing population. The median age
“Mirziyoyev is in a rush to create a new modern country as a torrent of reforms emerges from the president’s office”