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By Aynur Karimova

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has set the priorities for the country’s development in 2015 in his New Year message.

"Based on our own experiences and the experiences of developed democratic countries, our common goals are to expand the democratic reforms and form a civil society in the country,” the message said. “This has become our development strategy for the coming years."

Karimov noted removing all obstacles and limitations, ensuring complete freedom for the development of private property and private entrepreneurship are of fundamental importance. This comes as another key task is to consistently expand the structural reforms in the economy.

Continuous technical and technological renewal, modernization of the production sector and the widespread introduction of modern information and communication systems are also significant, he stressed.

"I am sure that only after implementing these important reforms, we can create necessary conditions to get rid of the old stereotypes of the administrative-command distribution system," Karimov said.

He went on adding that 2014 was fruitful and memorable in terms of production and development.

"2014 was significant especially in terms of sustainable growth of our economy," the greeting said. “Based on our stable GDP growth, we can talk about the country’s progress.”

Uzbekistan has been showing steady economic growth of at least eight percent over the past 10 years.

"We have good reasons to expect that such economic growth will continue in 2015," the president said.