Uzbek Radio first programme
August 29

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has said that some countries do not want to see positive changes in Uzbekistan. However, he does not care about them since everyone determines his own position.

Answering journalists' questions during the break in the Uzbek Supreme Assembly session on 29 August, he said: "I want to say - he [a journalist who asked a question] has asked me the question in Russian, that is why I will answer him in Russian - that a joint commission, or I would even like to call it a mission, of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund was held recently together with officials from the Asian [Development] Bank and European Bank [of Reconstruction and Development]. To be brief, they were specialists - the meeting was called to give an objective assessment [of the country's economic development]. And I should say that those who do not want to see positive changes in our country, think that their economies are as positive as ours. Well, they simply do not want to see it [positive change in Uzbekistan]. It seems to those countries that everything being undertaken in Uzbekistan is being done against the generally accepted rules. Well, I mentioned this in my report today. This is their business. Everyone determines his own position himself."

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