Country name: Uzbekistan
Population: 27,5 million (2008)
Area: Total - 447,400 sq. km.; land - 425,400 sq. km.; water - 22,000 sq. km.
Capital: Tashkent
Geography: Most of the territory of Uzbekistan is occupied by plains (nearly four fifths of the territory). One of the main plains is the Turanian Plain. In the east and north-east of the country are the ranges Tien Shan and the Pamirs, which is the highest spot in the country. One of the largest deserts of the world, the Kyzyl Kum Desert, is located on the north of the central part of the territory of Uzbekistan.
System of Government: Republic; Cabinet of Ministers - The Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan is the executive power body of the Republic of Uzbekistan, ensuring guidance over effective functioning of the economy, social and cultural development, execution of the laws, and other decisions of Oliy Majlis, as well as decrees and resolutions issued by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Head of the Government: Prime Minister - Shavkat Miromonovich MIRZIYOEV
Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan: Bakhodir Yunusovich KHODIEV
Parliament: The Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan consisting of two chambers - the Legislative Chamber (the lower chamber) and the Senate (the upper chamber).
Distribution of State Authority:
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan: The President is the head of state and executive power, and acts as the guarantor of the observation of rights and freedoms of citizens, the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan not younger of thirty years old who possesses the state language, living permanently in the territory of Uzbekistan not less than 10 years immediately before elections can be elected as a President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. One person cannot be elected as a President for two times in succession.
Oily Majlis: The supreme state representative body shall be the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan that exercises legislative power. The Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall consist of two chambers – the Legislative Chamber (the lower chamber) and the Senate (the upper chamber). The term of powers of the Legislative chamber and the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan – five years.
Cabinet of Ministers: The Cabinet of Ministers in its activity is guided by principles collective leadership, democracy and legality, accounting of interests of all nations and nationalities inhabiting the Republic of Uzbekistan. The Cabinet of Ministers shall issue resolutions and ordinances in accordance with the current legislation. This shall be binding on all bodies of administration, enterprises, institutions, organizations, officials and citizens throughout the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Judicial authority: The following types of courts work in the Republic of Uzbekistan: Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Higher Economic Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Supreme Civil and Criminal Courts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Civil and Criminal Regional (Viloyat) and Tashkent City Courts, Civil Inter-district, District (city) Courts, Criminal District (city) Courts, Economic Court of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Economic Courts of Regions (Viloyat) and Tashkent City, Martial Courts.
Central election commission: The Central Election Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan (then — the Central Election Committee) shall be formed to organize and hold the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and members of the Senate, deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as referendum of the Republic of Uzbekistan and carries out its activities on a permanent basis.
Accounts chamber: Accounts chamber is the independent supreme body of the financial control that is independent and objective in its estimations, carrying out monitoring and state supervision of target and effective execution of the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and outside budget target funds, state and movement of actives and passives of the government, reproduction, management and arrangement of golden reserves and external borrowings.
Prosecutor General’s Office: Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan is a uniform centralized system of bodies of Prosecutor General’s Office, headed by the General Prosecutor of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The basic tasks of Prosecutor General’s Office bodies of the Republic of Uzbekistan are maintenance of law supremacy, strengthening of legality, protection of the rights and freedom of the citizens protected by the law of society interests and the state, constitutional building of the Republic of Uzbekistan, prevention of offences.
Source: IUCP-T
Last up-date: 12 October 2010
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(November 2011, compiled as an annex to the "White Paper on Opportunities and Challenges in View of Enhancing the EU Cooperation with Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus in Science, Research, and Innovation".) (URL: http://www.increast.eu/_media/Uzbekistan_Country_Report_EN_Oct2010.pdf)
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