Abdulla Aripov
Abdulla Nigmatovich Aripov is an Uzbekistani engineer and politician who has served as prime minister of Uzbekistan since 2016. A member of the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as deputy prime minister from 2002 to 2012 and again in 2016.
Career
Politics
On 30 May 2002, Aripov was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan – Head of Complex on Information and Telecommunications Technologies Issues – Director-General of Communications and Information Agency of Uzbekistan. Then from October 2009 – oversees the Social Sphere, Science, Education, Health, Culture and responsible for contacts with CIS-partners. On February 4, 2005 Aripov was appointed as deputy prime minister. Then in a reshuffle in August 2012 he was appointed Head of Complex on Information Systems and Telecommunications.In September 2016 he was again appointed as deputy prime minister.
On 12 December 2016, he was nominated by the ruling party to form a cabinet. On 14 December, he was confirmed as prime minister on a joint session of the Oliy Majlis, and sworn in by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. On 15 December, he formed his cabinet. On 17 August 2024, Aripov went to Kabul, making him the highest-ranking foreign official to visit Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban in 2021.
Following the 2024 parliamentary election, Aripov was re-nominated by Mirziyoyev and confirmed through secret ballot on 20 November 2024.