Uzbekistan: Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev named interim president

Uzbekistan's parliament named Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as interim president on Thursday (September 8) in succession to the late President Islam Karimov, saying stability and law and order had to be maintained in the populous Central Asian state.
The authoritarian Karimov died of a stroke last week aged 78 after ruling the resource-rich country for 27 years.
Under the Uzbek constitution, a presidential election must now be held within three months, and Mirziyoyev, who was the official…
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