BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NSC FIRST DEPUTY

UNCLAS TASHKENT 000581 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPT FOR SCA/CEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PINR UZ SUBJECT: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NSC FIRST DEPUTY SECRETARY RAKHMANKULOV ¶1. (SBU) Post has obtained the following biographic information on Mir-Akbar Hoji-Akbarovich Rakhmankulov, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council and Director of the Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. ¶2. (SBU) Mir-Akbar Hoji-Akbarovich Rakhmankulov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born on October 5, 1952 in Tashkent. Rakhmankulov studied law at Tashkent State University between 1970 and ¶1975. Between 1975 and 1980, he worked his way up from junior to senior research staffer at the Economic Research Institute under Uzbekistan's State Planning Committee. From 1980 until 1984, Rakhmankulov worked first as an instructor in the Scientific Youth Section and then as Chief of the Department for Working with the Scientific Youth of the Central Committee of Uzbekistan's Lenin Communist Youth League. He was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philology and Law in Uzbekistan's Academy of Sciences between 1984 and 1985. From 1985 until 1988, he served as the Chief of the Scientific Personnel Department at the Academy of Sciences. Rakhmankulov was an assistant to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR in 1988-1989. In 1989, he was Academic Secretary of the Council for Coordination of Scientific Activity at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences. ¶3. (SBU) From 1989 to 1992, Rakhmankulov served as the Chief of Planning and Organization of Scientific Research at the Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he was the Chief of the Main Scientific-Organizational Department and Deputy Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences. From 1992 until 1993, Rakhmankulov was Deputy Chief of the "Expert Group of Consultants for Working with Foreign Firms and Entrepreneurs" of the Cabinet of Ministers. He was the first vice-rector of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in 1993-1994. Between 1994 and 1995, Rakhmankulov was Chief Consultant for Interstate and Foreign Economic Relations in the Presidential Apparat. ¶4. (SBU) Rakhmankulov served as the Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan between 1995 and 1997. ¶5. (SBU) From November 27, 1997 until August 20, 2002, Rakhmankulov was Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) of Uzbekistan and was State Adviser to the President of Uzbekistan. On August 20, 2002, he was demoted to First Deputy Secretary of the NSC. ¶6. (SBU) In August 2007, while continuing his responsibilities at the NSC, he was also re-appointed to his old position as Director of the Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies. NORLAND