The decree announcing the contest, which was signed by the acting President of the country Shavkat Mirzieev, was published on Tuesday.
“An international creative contest for a monument to the first President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov shall be announced, in order to perpetuate his memory”, - the document says.
As it was reported earlier, the proposal to install a monument to Islam Karimov was submitted to the Commission for Monumental Art at Moscow city Duma. In addition, in early November, Presidium of the Moscow government adopted a resolution to name a park in Yakimanka district after the first President of Uzbekistan.