Uzbek media reports say Abdulaziz Kamilov has been released of his post of Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan due to a transfer to another job.
Citing a spokesman for Uzbek president, kun.uz reported yesterday evening that Kamilov has been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council under the President of Uzbekistan for foreign policy and security issues.
Podrobno.uz, citing Uzbek President’s Office, said yesterday evening that Vladimir Norov, who had previously worked as a deputy foreign minister and served as the secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from January 2019 to December 2021, has been appointed to be the first deputy foreign minister of Uzbekistan and he has been entrusted with the duties of the minister as well.
ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЕ Vladimir Norov; photo / podrobno.uz
Recall, Radio Liberty’s Uzbek Service reported on March 30 that two days after publicly supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity, “Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov is reported to have fallen "ill" and is being treated abroad.”
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on March 29 that Kamilov was being treated over the previous 10 days for an unspecified "chronic illness" in Tashkent, but was then taken to an unspecified foreign country for further treatment, according to RFE/RL.
The report comes after Kamilov told lawmakers in a speech on March 17 that Uzbekistan does not recognize the pro-Russia separatist-controlled districts in Ukraine's Donbas, known as the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic. He also called for a "peaceful solution" to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Kamilov was born on November 16, 1947 in Yangiyul, Tashkent region. He graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. From 1978 through 1980, he was a post-graduate student at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He has a PhD in History
From 1992 until 1994, Kamilov served as the Deputy Minister of National Security, and in 1994, he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan. At the same time, from 1998 until 2003, he was the rector of University of World Economy and Diplomacy. He remained in the post of Foreign Minister until March 14, 2003, when he was replaced by Sodiq Safoyev, a few months before the government of Prime Minister Utkir Sultonov resigned. He was then appointed as National Foreign Affairs Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan.
He was subsequently appointed as the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States and Canada with residence in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2003. In 2008, while in Washington, he also assumed the duties of ambassador to Brazil. In 2010, Kamilov was appointed as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he returned to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2012.
