The former chairman of the Supreme Council of Nationalities of the USSR Rafik Nishanov died

Former head of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the USSR Rafik Nishanov has died at the age of 95. His death was reported by Uzbek journalist Rakhimjon Sultanov, close to his family.

According to Rakhimjon Sultanov, Rafik Nishanov, who has lived in Moscow since 1989, died abroad (where exactly is not specified). He can be buried in Geneva or in Uzbekistan.

“I highly valued Rafik Nishanovich as a wise senior comrade and mentor who gave me a ticket to great diplomacy when I worked under him in Colombo on my first long trip abroad,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his words are quoted press office Russian diplomatic department.

Rafig Nishanov was born in 1926. He began party work in the Uzbek SSR in 1951. Rafik Nishanov has been working in diplomacy since 1970: then he became the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives.

From 1986 to 1988, Nishanov was chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the Uzbek SSR. From 1987 to 1988 – Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1988 he headed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR, a year later became chairman Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1991 he was appointed adviser to the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.

Anastasia Larina