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Jamshid Khilolovich Karimov (
Tajik
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: Ҷамшед Хилолович Каримов, fa, جمشید کریماف; born 4 August 1940,
Dushanbe
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) 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
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,
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 the
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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. 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
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, Karimov was a member of the
Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
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Backg ...
.
At the same time, he held the post of First Secretary of the Dushanbe City Committee of the
Communist Party of Tajikistan
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. 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
1940 births
Living people
People from Dushanbe
Ambassadors of Tajikistan to China
Prime Ministers of Tajikistan
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Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour