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Protests broke out in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan on 1 July 2022 over proposed amendments by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Uzbek President, to the Constitution of Uzbekistan, which would have ended Karakalpakstan's status as an autonomous region of Uzbekistan and right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum.
Karakalpakstan shares veto power with Uzbekistan over decisions concerning its affairs. According to the constitution , relations between Karakalpakstan and Uzbekistan are "regulated by treaties and agreements" and any disputes are "settled by way of reconciliation".
In 1991, Karakalpakstan proclaimed its independence from the Soviet Union, but in 1992, it rejoined Uzbekistan under the agreement that it would maintain its autonomy. [6] In 1993, Karakalpakstan entered into a 20-year reunification agreement with the central government in Tashkent , which secured the republic's constitutional right to hold a ...
Uzbekistan is an active supporter of U.S. efforts against worldwide terrorism and joined the coalitions which have dealt with both Afghanistan and Iraq (although, in 2005, relations with the U.S. were strained after the May 2005 unrest and Uzbekistan demanded that the U.S. leave Karshi-Khanabad).
Nukus is the capital of the sovereign Republic of Karakalpakstan within Uzbekistan. There has been concern raised over a lack of due process in legal trials in the city. [23] In July 2022, thousands of people protested in the city over a proposed constitutional amendment that would make Karakalpakstan no longer autonomous.
The Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Karakalpak ASSR; Karakalpak: Қарақалпақстан АССР, Qaraqalpaqstan ASSR; Uzbek: Қорақалпоғистон АССР, Qoraqalpog‘iston ASSR; Russian: Каракалпакская АССР, Karakalpakskaya ASSR), also known as Soviet Karakalpakstan or simply Karakalpakstan, was an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.
This article lists political parties in Uzbekistan, a post-Soviet nation dominated by the supporters of the President of Uzbekistan.Despite small reforms and openness in the 2010s, no true opposition parties are allowed and every registered party supports the incumbent president and former prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as well as the founder of the Republic of Uzbekistan and former ...
Orynbaev Amanbai Tlewbaevich (Uzbek: Orinbayev Amanbay Tlewbay og'li, Karakalpak: Orınbaev Amanbay Tlewbay uli; born September 17, 1979) is a Karakalpak and Uzbek statesman and politician, chairman of the Jokargy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan [1] since August 26, 2022, and concurrently deputy head of the Senate of the Republic of ...