Islom Karimov

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Islom Karimov



Islam Abduganievich Karimov was born on January 30, 1938 in the city of Samarkand in a modest family of a civil servant, where daily hard work was a routine to make a living.

He lived his childhood in the harsh military and post-war years. Despite the fact that he and all of his relatives knew very well the true value of the earned piece of bread and suffered privations and hardships, they, like thousands of our compatriots, shared their home and bread with people evacuated to Uzbekistan during the World War II.

In 1945, he went to the Samarkand school No. 21 named after Alexander Pushkin and finished it with a gold medal (highest grades). During his school years, he used to read a lot, especially history books, and had a particular interest in exact sciences, he was fond of chess, modeling and table tennis.

In 1955, Islam Karimov was admitted to the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute. After graduation it in 1960 with a Diploma of mechanical engineer, he began his career at the TASHSELMASH (Tashkent Agricultural Machinery) factory, where in a short time he was promoted from an assistant foreman, to the positions of a foreman and an industrial engineer. The plant produced various types of machines for agriculture. It was important for Islam Karimov to experience everything first-hand, to be a part of production process, see the «dark» and «bright» sides of factory life.

Islam Karimov had been always ready to show his great personal courage. Suffice to recall how he tried to persuade people by just power of words without regard for his own safety in the raging protest rallies in the Buka and Parkent districts of the Tashkent region, and he succeeded. Another example, at the end of 1991 Islam Karimov entered the building of the Namangan Regional Administration fully controlled by extremists. He was all alone with no security guards. There he has clearly defined his position in the Nation-building in a democratic and secular way which ruled out any manifestation of extremism including religious one.



On March 2, 1992, Uzbekistan was acceded to the United Nations, as a full-fledged subject of international law. This was a landmark event in the history of the country and it opened new opportunities for active development of international economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation. 133 countries established diplomatic relations with Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan became a member of more than 100 international organizations, actively participating in the work of prominent international institutions, such as the United Nations,

And here it was essential to solve a fundamental problem that was to create practically from scratch the apparatus of foreign policy and foreign economic activities. The most challenging issue was the lack of qualified personnel. It was decided to train them in Uzbekistan, relying on the talented youth of our people.

In addition, the attendance of Islam Karimov in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe held in Helsinki in July 1992 served as the recognition of the international standing of Uzbekistan. He chaired that meeting and discussed the CSCE final document «The Challenges of Change». Islam Karimov also repeatedly performed his speeches at sessions of the UN General Assembly and other international organizations, presenting his own, sometimes extraordinary, but always honest, heartfelt approach to resolving the most pressing international issues.

Islam Karimov initiated and consistently made efforts to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia, the final formation of which was enshrined in the Protocol on Security Assurances to the Treaty on the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, signed by the five nuclear powers – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.