Address by President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers dedicated to the outcomes of social and economic development of the country in 2008 and the most important priorities of economic program for 2009.

Dear participants of the meeting!

Today at the extended meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers we sum up the outcomes of social and economic development of our country in 2008 and define the most important priorities of economic program for 2009.

This year the implementation of this task becomes difficult, above all, due to the fact that the economies practically of all countries of the world experience the toughest impact of the world financial and economic crisis unfolded in 2008 which at many developed and developing countries take on ever greater scales and depth, leads to downturn of production, growing unemployment, worsening of living standards of population and is mainly of an unpredictable nature.

Address by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers dedicated to the outcomes of social and economic development of the country in 2007 and most important priorities of deepening the economic reforms in 2008.

Dear participants of the meeting!

The main goal and task of today’s meeting is to critically assess the achieved frontiers, quality changes and tendencies which took place in the economy and other spheres of life of our society, as well as clearly and concretely define the most important priorities in economic and social development on which we should focus our efforts this year.