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Jamshid Khilolovich Karimov (
Jamshid Khilolovich Karimov (Tajik
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: Ҷамшед Хилолович Каримов, fa, جمشید کریماف; born 4 August 1940, Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...
) is a Tajikistani politician. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Tajikistan
The prime minister of Tajikistan is the title held by the head of government of Tajikistan. After the president, the prime minister is second most powerful person of the country. The prime minister coordinates the work of the Cabinet and advise ...
between 2 December 1994 and 8 February 1996. He is a cousin of former President of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
, Islam Karimov
Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was t ...
. From 20 June 1997 to 2002 he was Tajik Ambassador to China.
Biography
Karimov was born on 4 August 1940 in Dushanbe. In 1962, he graduated from the Moscow Technological Institute of Light Industry and in 1968 from the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of theSoviet Academy of Sciences
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...
. From 1962 to 1981 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Industrial Economics of Tajik State University. Beginning in March 1989 until the fall of the USSR
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
, Karimov was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (russian: Съезд народных депутатов СССР, ''Sʺezd narodnykh deputatov SSSR'') was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.
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At the same time, he held the post of First Secretary of the Dushanbe City Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
The Communist Party of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҳизби Коммунистии Тоҷикистон, ''Hizbi Kommunistiyi Tojikiston''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Таджикистана) is a communist party in Tajikistan ...
. From January to July 1991, Karimov was Deputy Prime Minister, then from July to the following November, First Deputy Prime Minister. In 1994, State Adviser to the President for Social and Economic Policy. On 2 December of that, he was appointed Prime Minister, holding this position until 8 February 1996, after leading a cabinet with little powers at the time. On 9 January 1997, he was posted to the Tajik embassy in Beijing
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, arriving in June.
References
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