From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 10:22:31 EDT
NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS IN UZBEKISTAN
President Islam Karimov on 2 August promoted two ministers to the rank of
deputy premier, Interfax reported. They are Finance Minister
Rustam Azimov, who had worked previously as chairman of the
National Foreign Economic Affairs Bank, and Agriculture
Minister Turop Kholtaev. In addition, Karimov promoted Rustam
Shoabdurakhmanov to the post of minister of macroeconomics
and statistics. He was previously first deputy within that
ministry. LF
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