Rakhmatulla Nazarov had held the Minsk post since February 2024. The commission Mirziyoyeva will lead is to evaluate the effectiveness of diplomatic missions and propose personnel changes, including replacing ambassadors with younger appointees. The president also named the missions in France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Oman, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore as insufficiently active.
The state has started measuring the distance between a signed page and a built plant.
The Belarus posting makes the standard legible. Nazarov arrived shortly before Lukashenko’s visit to Tashkent, which produced agreements worth more than $1 billion; in March he said the two countries were close to that figure and aimed at $2 billion in trade. Two weeks ago Mirziyoyev’s state visit to Minsk produced around 20 documents and a target of $2 billion by 2030. The chronology is the record, and the readout gives no reason beyond performance.
What matters regionally is the instrument. Every capital here signs packages during visits, and the conversion rate is rarely published by anyone. Uzbekistan has now put a name, a commission and a personnel consequence behind that question. Watch whether the commission publishes a metric, which ambassadors move, and whether any project from the $213 billion column is reported as completed rather than agreed.