Republic+of+Uzbekistan

This page has been created by Maria Morente Martin =My Country Facts=

Official country name:
Republic of Uzbekistan.

Year that the country joined the UN:
1992.

1.What are the people from the country called?
The people from Uzbekistan is called Uzbek.

2.What is the official language?What other languages do people speak?
The official language is the Uzbek although Russian is also spoken by everyone.

3.What is the most- practiced religion?
The most praticed-religion is Islam.

4.How are the Uzbek people educated?
Education system of Uzbekistan is composed of a 9 year period of studies.Children start their education at the age of 6 or 7depending on their psychological and physical condition.The last 3 years of secondary education can be obtained in two types of secondary education establishments. Proffesional colleges and academic lyceums.

1.What is the name of the leader of the country?
The president of Uzbequistan's name is Islam Karnimov.

2.What type of government is the country ruled by (i.e. monarchy, democracy, dictatorship?)
The government is a republic. Authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch, social democratic party, ecologist movement of Uzbekistan.

3. What are the main political parties of the country (socialist party, communist party, green party, reublicans, democrats, etc?)
Liberal democratic party, People's democratic party, National revival democratic party, social democratic party and ecologist movement of Uzbekistan.

4. Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence?
Since the beginning of the twentieth century Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union. On August of 1991 Uzbekistan declared independence.

5. Which was the name of the first president of Uzbekistan?
The first president of Uzbekistan was Islam Karimov.

1. Where is the country? (i.e. continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa)
The country is located in the West-Central Asia.

2. What other nations border the country?
The nations that border the country are: Kazakhstan and the Aral Sea in the north and northwest, Turkmenistan in the southwest, Kyrgyzstan in the northeast and Tajikistan in the southeast and A fghnanistan in the south in a short border.

3. What kind of landscape does the country have?
It is composed of desert areas and mountains (they occupied the 90% of the land) and less than the 10% of its territory are intensively irrigated cultivated land in river valleys and oases.

4. Does your country have a lot of vegetation?
No, Uzbekistan's natural vegetation is very low except in the river valleys where there are some pasture and in the humid soils next to the river Amu Darya where it was development a leafy vegetation of bust and aquatic plants.

1. What is the most common sector of employment in the country? (i.e. business, agriculture and farming, government jobs, etc)
Agriculture is a very important sector because Uzbekistan is the sixth largest producer of cotton in the world. Also Uzbekistan produce gold and natural gas, coal, copper, oil, silver and uranium.

2. What is the unemployment rate in your country (by percentage)?
The unemployment rate in Uzbekistan is 1.1 %.

3. Which types of industry are there in Uzbekistan?
Uzbekistan possesses a highly developed automobile, airplane and machine buildings, textiles, food processing, metallurgy, natural gas and oil processing, chemical and other industries.

The most surprising thing I learned about my country was:
At cotton-harvest time all students and teachers are mobilized to help in the fields. The use of child labour has led several companies, including Tesco, Marks&Spencer, H&M, C&A......

=**My predictions** = Affortunately Uzbekistan doesnt have almost problems with the traffic of animals. Uzbekistan is disagree with trading of animal species. Uzbequistan is a passage way for some animals that are trafficked. Some of them are for example a small antilope typical in Asia that is use to make perfums.Another animal that is also very trafficked is the frog, because in some cities of Europe are very demanded in restaurants for its legs.This animals suffer many tortures. For this reason most of them die before they arrive to the place of destination. =My predictions= I think Uzbekistan is a country in wich children start to work when they are so young. Important clothing brands use children because they are cheaper.They explote children, and then this chidren don't receive a good quantity of money.The goverment of Uzbekistan is going to strengthen vigilance to avoid this situations.

=Position Paper (1st draft)=

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