Furkat Siddikov presented credentials to Joe Biden

Uzbekistan's new ambassador to the United States, Furkat Siddikov, met with President Joe Biden and presented his credentials.
"I have just received photos from the credentials ceremony. It was a great honor for me to meet with President Joe Biden.

I strive to strengthen friendship and cooperation between our countries, to further strengthen our strategic partnership," Furkat Siddikov wrote on Twitter.

On March 3, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis approved the candidacy of Furkat Siddikov for the post of Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States.

Furkat Siddikov was born on February 7, 1971 in Tashkent. In 1993 he graduated from Tashkent State Technical University. He worked as a chief specialist of the UzDeu Electronics Joint Venture (1993-1995), an employee of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President, a senior researcher, a leading researcher (1995-2002, 2007-2011).

Then he worked as an attache (2002-2007), First Secretary (2011-2015), Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Pakistan (2015-2020) at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in the United States.

Furkat Siddikov became the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan in May 2020, and since November 2022 he has worked as the first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Since 2017, Uzbekistan's diplomatic mission to the United States has been headed by Zhavlon Vakhobov.