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Uzbekistan's referendum to approve changes in the national constitution. Sweeping changes says

Gwerkri Kapli, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Uzbekistan, a landlocked state.

However, the most populous of all the Central Asian states once under the boot of the Soviet Empire.

Now freed. Gwerkri, a very good evening to you. Why the national constitution was changed

and what is next for President Mirzaiyev? The referendum was critical because it represented

another milestone in transforming Uzbekistan to a more democratic and very much more open

and transparent society. It inherited enormous inefficiencies from the Soviet Union and was

very, very corrupt in the administration of government under the transitional leader

from after the collapse of the Soviet Union until about just a few years ago when President Karamop

was in power. He died and fortunately then the prime minister was made acting president, President

Mirzaiyev. And he began immediately cracking down on corruption and proving the transparency of

investment, minimizing the involvement of government in the society, literally a classic

reformer. This attracted enormous support from the population and he was reelected overwhelmingly

in 2019 to the presidency. But there are clearly a lot more jobs to be done. The corruption is

diminished like night and day, but the security problems continue, water problems continue,

what President Mirzaiyev inherited of course was a state in which the Soviet Union under Stalin had

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