Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Dec. 14
By Demir Azizov– Trend:
The new Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev called building democratic dynamically developing society, improving the efficiency of democratic reforms the most important tasks on the way of Uzbekistan’s further development.
Mirziyoyev made the remarks at a joint meeting of the Legislative Chamber and the Senate - upper and lower houses of the Uzbek Parliament, where he was sworn in and took office as president of Uzbekistan.
In his speech, Mirziyoyev stressed that the main goal for him is to continue large scale reforms implemented under the leadership of first Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Mirziyoyev noted that he attaches great importance to the development of private entrepreneurship, reduction of the level of state presence in the Uzbek economy.
The new Uzbek president also stressed the need to evaluate the work of state bodies of different levels according to the effectiveness of their interaction with the population, and so that heads of state power report directly to the people.
“We are open to further development of cooperation with foreign countries and companies, and we are willing to create new, broader conditions and possibilities for this,” he said.
It was earlier reported that candidates from four political parties of Uzbekistan participated in the presidential election on Dec. 4.
More than 15.9 million voters, or 88.61 percent of all voters who participated in the voting, cast their ballots for Mirziyoyev.
The country held early presidential election Dec. 4 in connection with the death of the first Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who passed away after suffering a stroke on Sept. 2.