Matloubkhon Davlatov equal to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister, says expert

DUSHANBE, January 5, 20112, Asia-Plus  -- We may expect anything good from staff changes only when new specialists having modern come to government, Suhrob Sharipov, deputy of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon, commenting on the latest staff changes introduced by the president.

“Staff changes are needed to bring young ambitious people into government that would have a new modern vision of what is going on in the country and the world as a whole and have modern methods of management of state,” said Sharipov.  “It is very difficult to understand meaning of these staff changes without that.”

The expert, however, considers that Matloubkhon Davlatov is equal to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister.  “He is a good economic manager and I think he will cope with tasks,” Sharipov said.

As far as Bakhtiyor Khudoyorov, who replaced Matloubkhon Davlatov as Head of President’s Executive Office, is concerned, Sharipov said that he was a good executing officer.  “I think he will manage President’s Executive Office successfully,” the expert said.

Meanwhile, Parviz Mullojonov, political analyst and Executive Director of the Public
Committee for Democratic Processes in Tajikistan, says that there ought not to expect anything new from the latest staff changes.  “These staff changes are just standard appointments within the same team,” said Mullojonov.  “It is just reshuffle; one of members of the team is transferred to other job and he is replaced by other member of the same team.”

According to him, the fact that the new head of president’s executive office is not from Kulob by origin does not mean that potential has been exhausted to an extent that there was no any candidate for this position from the Kulob region.  “Bakhtiyor Khudoyorov apparently enjoys the high confidence of the president,” Mullojonov noted.