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Area: 447,400 sq km
Population: 26.5m (UN, 2004)
Capital City: Tashkent (population: 2,120,000)
People: 71% Uzbek, 8% Russian, 5% Tajik, 4% Kazakh, 3% Tatars
Languages: Uzbek/Russian/Tajik
Religion(s): Sunni Muslim (88%)
Currency: Som
Government Republic
President: Islam Karimov
Prime Minister: Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Foreign Minister: Vladimir Norov
Economic Information: (see below)
Membership of international groupings/organisations: Uzbekistan is a member of the OSCE, UN, NATO Partnership for Peace, the IMF, World Bank and EBRD, and has acceded to the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Membership of regional organisations: Uzbekistan was an active member of the GUAM alliance (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) from 1999 until 2002 when it suspended its membership. It formally left the organisation in 2005. Uzbekistan joined the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in 2001 (along with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan). In 2002, Uzbekistan joined the new Central Asia Co-operation Organisation, along with Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. In 2006 Uzbekistan joined the EURASEC organisation and resumed co-operation with the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). Uzbekistan has had a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the EU since 1 July 1999. EU Foreign Ministers decided on a partial suspension of the PCA in October 2005 following the events in Andizhan of 13 May 2005. In EU foreign ministers renewed the arms embargo and visa ban against Uzbekistan for months EU Foreign Ministers will review the measures again in 2007.

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