President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took part in the Dec 23 extraordinary session of the Jizzakh region deputies council. In his speech, the President criticized the region’s previous leadership for the accumulated problems.
Among them - the failure to achieve the targets for exports and drawing investment.
On the President’s proposal Ulugbek Uzakov, who previously served as head of a department of the Cabinet of Ministers, has been elected the new Jizzakh region governor.
Sayfiddin Ismayilov has been dismissed from the position of Jizzakh governor with the statement "in connection with his transfer to another job."
In September Abdukahhar Tukhtaev, formerly Tashkent mayor, was approved as the new mayor of Jizzakh city.
