tashkent president shavkat mirziyoyev say friday uzbekistan report inflate economic growth employment figure years describe amplify number fiction promise reform central asian nation former soviet republic report gross domestic product growth eight 10 percent decade although foreign economists often question quality veracity data speak parliament mirziyoyev elect president year ago death veteran leader islam karimov say figure real eight percent gdp growth fiction say add year growth see 5.5 percent frank order 5.5 percent figure check almost 10 time employment figure also greatly inflate say 2017 create 336,000 new job real figure say use report create nearly million job annually country world mirziyoyev serve prime minister since 2003 blame mislead report former government economists without name mirziyoyev reshuffle government first year power implement reform liberalization previously draconic foreign exchange regulations scar foreign investors friday vow continue reform say uzbekistan would resume talk join world trade organisation next year mirziyoyev also say resource-rich nation 32 million badly need upgrade age infrastructure 2017 produce 56.5 billion cubic meter natural gas say sector modernize many years great losses 20-23 percent production ship mirziyoyev say uzbekistan would boost gas output 66 bcm next year uzbek president say economic data 'fiction years