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3 leaders across 3 countries this week.

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2026-08-18 Shavkat Mirziyoyev

The event brought together entrepreneurs from all regions of the country, including about 25,000 business representatives who joined from district studios. The Head of State congratulated the 1.2 million members of the business community, who make a significant contribution to strengthening the country’s economic potential, on Entrepreneurs’ Day. Over the past five years since the tradition of holding open dialogues with entrepreneurs was established, thousands of issues hindering business dev…

Announcement
2026-08-17 Sanae Takaichi

Today, the first preliminary figures for "quarterly GDP for April-June 2026" were released. Despite the impact of the situation in the Middle East, the "real growth rate" was +0.3% compared to the previous quarter, or +1.1% on an annualized basis, marking the "third consecutive quarter of positive growth." Although domestic demand turned negative due to special factors such as a decline due to ``tobacco price increases,'' external demand turned positive, resulting in positive growth overall, a…

Speech
2026-08-17 Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Over the last nine years, the region has attracted $7.5 billion in investments and commissioned 9,700 new production capacities. Additionally, over 33 trillion UZS has been allocated in loans to small and medium-sized enterprises. As a result, real incomes have doubled. The share of the population employed in industry and construction has reached 18 percent, while the share in the services sector stands at 55 percent. The poverty rate has declined to 4.4 percent, and unemployment has halved to …

Announcement
2026-08-14 Sanae Takaichi

<Measures against high prices ⑤> To begin with, economic growth is accompanied by a certain level of price rise. Originally, successive governments since the Abe Cabinet and the Bank of Japan have continued to make efforts to sustainably achieve the ``2% price stability target (2% year-on-year increase in consumer prices).'' Unless companies reflect "costs" in "prices of products and services," "employee salaries" will not increase, and "research and development" and "capital investment to imp…

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2026-08-14 Sanae Takaichi

<Measures against high prices ①> The Takauchi Cabinet has given top priority to addressing the ``high prices'' that the people are facing. Some people say that the Takauchi Cabinet appears to be prioritizing the realization of its own political beliefs while neglecting measures to combat high prices that are hurting the people of Japan, but that is different from my understanding. During the House of Councilors election last July, I was not a party official but a member of the House of Repres…

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The head of state received the akim of the West Kazakhstan region Nariman Turegaliev 🟦 The President heard a report on the socio-economic development of the region. Nariman Turegaliev: ➤ reported that the volume of gross regional product as of January 1, 2026 reached 5 trillion tenge, having increased by 13.6% over three years. 🟦 At the end of last year, the volume of attracted investments amounted to 874.5 billion tenge, which is 16.6% more than the previous year. ➤ informed in detail about the…

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The head of state received the akim of West Kazakhstan region Nariman Toregaliyev 🟦 The President listened to the report on the socio-economic development of the region. Nariman Toregaliev: ➤ He said that the regional gross product increased by 13.6 percent in three years and reached 5 trillion tenge on January 1, 2026. 🟦 According to the results of the last year, the volume of investments made 874.5 billion tenge and increased by 16.6 percent compared to the previous year. ➤ gave detailed infor…

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The President received Chairman of the National Bank Timur Suleimenov ➡️ The head of state heard a report on the results of the implementation of monetary policy in January-July 2026. Timur Suleimenov: ➤ informed about the situation in the economy, business activity, inflation factors and measures taken to stabilize prices. 🟦 Annual inflation has been decreasing for the tenth month in a row and in July amounted to 10.2%, which is facilitated by the ongoing monetary policy, the strengthening of t…

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The President received Timur Suleymenov, Chairman of the National Bank ➡️ The head of state listened to the report on the results of the implementation of the monetary and credit policy in January-July 2026. Timur Suleimenov : ➤ reported on the situation in the economy, business activity, factors affecting inflation and measures being taken to stabilize prices. 🟦 Annual inflation decreased for ten months in a row and amounted to 10.2 percent in July. This is influenced by the ongoing monetary an…

Announcement
2026-08-13 Sanae Takaichi

During the summer vacation period, many people may be returning to their hometowns or enjoying domestic travel. Takaichikaku is also doing its best to revitalize the region. No matter where you live in the 47 prefectures, there is a place to work. This is the image of the Japanese archipelago that Takauchikaku aims for. This time, we will introduce the ``Revised Financial Functions Enhancement Act,'' which was passed in the recent special Diet session and aims to strengthen the ``financial pow…