28 Facts About Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev was born on 24 July 1957 and is an Uzbek politician who has served as President of Uzbekistan and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan since 2016.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev worked as the head physician of the tuberculosis dispensary in Zaamin.

In 1981, Shavkat Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev was nominated as prime minister by President Islam Karimov on 12 December 2003, and approved by the Uzbek parliament.

Han and Shavkat Mirziyoyev boosted cooperation in the energy, agriculture, construction, architecture, and information technology sectors.

The 2016 harvest, when Shavkat Mirziyoyev was acting president and retained control over cotton production, continued to be defined by mass involuntary mobilization of workers under threat of penalty.

On 24 October 2021, Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission announced that Shavkat Mirziyoyev received 80.1 percent of the vote and will serve a second five-year term.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev was reported to have friendly relations with Karimov's wife, Tatyana Karimova, and National Security Council chairman Rustam Inoyatov.

That was taken as a sign that Shavkat Mirziyoyev would succeed Karimov as president.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev started to settle a long-running border dispute with Kyrgyzstan, and regular flights between the capitals of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were set to resume in January 2017 for the first time since 1992.

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

The election was described by The Economist as a sham; the paper wrote that Shavkat Mirziyoyev's bent was as authoritarian as that of Karimov and that state media claimed the choice was between Shavkat Mirziyoyev, chaos, or Islamic radicalism.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev initiated the project of "Tashkent City", intended to attract foreign investors to Uzbekistan.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev promised to resume negotiations with the World Trade Organization on joining the organization in 2018.

Some analysts think Shavkat Mirziyoyev wants to enter in history as a reformer.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited all the Uzbek regions and big cities to get acquainted with the implementation of the projects and reforms which he had ordered.

In July 2021, Shavkat Mirziyoyev's spokesperson attempted to generate some suspense as to whether or not the President would run in the elections again.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev promised to conduct an active foreign policy at the beginning of his tenure.

On 19 September 2017, Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the UN General Assembly for the first time.

In March 2018, Shavkat Mirziyoyev made a visit to Tajikistan, which made him the first Uzbek president to conduct a state visit to Dushanbe since 2000.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev has taken an important role in Afghanistan by offering to host peace talks between the government and the Taliban since March 2018.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the Vibrant Gujarat international investment summit as a key guest, being the first Central Asian leader to participate as a partner in the summit.

In early 2019, it was announced that Shavkat Mirziyoyev planned to visit 36 countries in official visits throughout the year.

In March 2019, Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had resigned from office that day.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev is married to Ziroatkhon Hoshimova and has two daughters, a son and five grandchildren.

Since coming to power, Shavkat Mirziyoyev has built a new residence for himself in Qibray District, which could potentially include a presidential highway, and an interior that is decorated with Argentinian marble slabs and Swarovski crystals.

In February 2021, it was reported that Shavkat Mirziyoyev was building an exclusive mountain compound, including a new reservoir.