Dear conference participants, ladies and gentlemen! It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you, our dear guests, representatives of prominent international organizations and financial institutions – the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, ASEAN, UNESCO and other agencies, the heads of major companies and leading specialists in the field of housing construction – all the participants of this conference, and express my deepest respect to all of you and our sincere appreciation for your participation in the this forum. |
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov attended the opening ceremony of the international conference “Modern housing construction as a driving force of comprehensive development and transformation of rural areas, enhancing the living standards of population” at Tashkent’s Palace of Symposiums on April 17.
It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you, our dear guests, representatives of international institutions – the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the leading academics and professionals, businesspeople, all the conference participants from 45 countries – and express my deep respect and sincere gratefulness for your participation in this forum. The subject matter and hence the title of this conference, “The Role and Importance of Small Business and Private Entrepreneurship in the Implementation of Social and Economic Policy in Uzbekistan” is hardly accidental. This is due primarily to the fact that the priority of an accelerated development of this sector from the very first days of Uzbekistan’s independence has been an important driving force in addressing the most acute of the crisis issues that were left to us from the old totalitarian, planning and distributive system. |
Palace of Symposiums, Tashkent
Esteemed guests! All of us are widely celebrating today the unforgettably historic date in the life of our country – the twenty-first anniversary of Uzbekistan’s independence. I take a splendid pleasure to sincerely congratulate you – and our entire nation in your face by extension – from the bottom of heart on this genuinely greatest and dearest for all of us holiday, Independence Day, the event our people had dreamt of for centuries. I am convinced that with the passage of ages and millennia, this grand event – the Independence Day, the day that restored our sense of national self-consciousness, honor and pride, the right to dispose of the destiny of our own country, our sacred religion, values, customs and traditions – will stay eternal in history and get inscribed with gold letters in the chronicles of our Motherland. |
Dear compatriots!
Ladies and Gentlemen! I take a great pleasure in welcoming you, the contributors to this conference, and first and foremost our dear guests who represent the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, representatives of more than forty countries from different continents of the world, and express my deepest respect and sincere gratitude for your participation in this forum. I would like to convey my special appreciation to President of the Asian Development Bank Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda, one of the initiators of the current conference, for his outstanding contribution to promoting the efforts undertaken in Uzbekistan aimed at stabilizing the economic situation and securing sustainable development for our region. |
Dear participants of the Conference!Dear compatriots! Distinguished guests! Today we celebrate a great holiday, an unforgettable historic date – the twentieth anniversary of independence Mother Uzbekistan – across the entire nation, in every single town and kishlak. Two decades ago, decisively rejecting the old, obsolete totalitarian Soviet system, we started a new stage of historical development - of building an open, democratic state with a socially oriented market economy, free and independent life that had been sought by our people for many centuries. It gives me a great pleasure to cordially congratulate you, my dear - and in your person our entire nation - on the greatest, the dearest holiday for us all to express my deep respect and reverence. |
Distinguished Heads of State! Let me greet you and express my gratitude to the Russian side, President Dmitriy Medvedev, for the warm welcome and traditional hospitality. The critical issue on the agenda of today’s summit meeting is to further improve the system of collective security within Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Reasonable and timely, in our view, are the initiatives aimed at ensuring effectiveness and efficiency in decision-making within CSTO, at consolidating the Organization’s capacities in responding effectively to crisis situations. |
As underscored in the UN Millennium Declaration, one of the most serious obstacles in fighting poverty, misery, hunger, growth of maternal and child mortality, epidemics and other problems facing humanity, are the ongoing wars and conflicts on our planet, continuing interstate, interethnic and inter-religious confrontations. |
Let me cordially welcome you and reiterate my deep gratitude for the high interest shown in the current Tashkent summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization. |
We now have every reason to assert that for a relatively short period of time, Shanghai Cooperation Organization formed in 2001 has become an influential international organization of modern geopolitics. |
First of all, allow me to cordially welcome the participants of the 43rd Annual Meeting of ADB Board of Governors, the representatives of high-profile international organizations and all guests who have arrived in Tashkent. It is a great honor for us that the capital of our country has been first among those in Central Asia and Caucasus as a venue to hold this critical event, and we would like to express our sincerest words of gratitude to the governments of ADB member-states who took the decision. |
Dear President Kuroda, 
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