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Eurasia Daily
April 20, 2018
This was announced today by the Deputy Minister of Defense, the commander of the Air Defense Forces and the Air Force of Uzbekistan, Major-General Ahmad Burkhanov. Russia, as he said, remains an important strategic partner of the republic. In Tashkent, a regular meeting of the CoordinatingÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
April 20, 2018
TASHKENT (TCA) — China seeks to increase investment in energy, infrastructure, and transport projects in Uzbekistan — the policy that brings .... visited Uzbekistan to sign a provincial-level agreement with the Samarkand city government and to promote the Henan-Uzbek Agricultural Industrial Park.
The Australian Financial Review
April 20, 2018
A new explanation for the cause of one of the greatest armed conflicts in history – the 1941-45 war between Germany and the Soviet Union – emerged in Tashkent last week. According to an Uzbek official, fighting between the Russians and Germans started just two hours after Soviet officials – in what wasÃâà...
New York Times
April 7, 2018
BUKHARA, Uzbekistan — The ancient Silk Road city of Bukhara has two synagogues, a primary school that teaches Hebrew, a Jewish cultural association and a sprawling ... The central government in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, would like Bukhara's Jews to stay and those who left to start returning.
New York Times
April 2, 2018
The detention center in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, is where Bobomurod Abdullaev, a freelance journalist, was taken and, according to his wife and lawyer, tortured after agents of Uzbekistan's feared National Security Service grabbed him off the street in September. But it was also where Mr. Abdullaev,Ãâà...
Human Rights Watch
March 31, 2018
The scene outside a Tashkent courtroom where two journalists are on trial is at once festive and tragic. Uzbekistan's embattled human rights defenders, long harassed by the late Islam Karimov's repressive government, gathered in numbers not seen for years alongside local reporters, internationalÃâà...
BBC News
March 30, 2018
Uzbekistan is a country that has long been in the shadows, but this week the once repressive and secretive Central Asian state invited the media in for an international summit on the peace process in Afghanistan. It was a chance for BBC Uzbek's Ibrat Safo to return home for the first time in more than 10Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
Before meeting Mogherini, Ghani addressed the Tashkent conference and said regional countries need to support Afghanistan's peace efforts ... Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev also addressed the delegates and said the fight against terrorism was a common factor for the region and moreÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
The Tashkent summit is expected to be attended by the UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, as well as the foreign ministers of China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
Delegates attending the peace conference in the Uzbekistan capital have agreed that the reconcilable Taliban should be recognized as a legitimate ... The conference was opened by President Ashraf Ghani and his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev and attended by Foreign Ministers of Russia,Ãâà...
Economic Times
March 27, 2018
The significance attached to India for this Tashkent process can be gauged from the fact that Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov had visited India last month only to invite External ... Uzbekistan, as a close neighbour of Afghanistan, has always been an advocate for peaceful political settlement.
TASS
March 27, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is going to participate in the International High-Level Conference on Afghanistan, Peace Process, Security Cooperation and Regional Connectivity in Tashkent on Tuesday. The conference will be opened by the presidents of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan ShavkatÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
The Tashkent summit is expected to be attended by the UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, as well as the foreign ministers of China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
Uzbekistan hosted the first peace conference on Afghanistan in 1999. On Sunday, Uzbek foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and Afghan deputy minister of foreign affairs, Hekmat Khalil Karzai presided over a meeting of experts where they agreed on the draft final declaration of the Tashkent Declaration,Ãâà...
Novinite.com
March 27, 2018
The State Department said Shannon would discuss with Uzbek leaders “the progress made under Mirziyoev's reform agenda, reaffirm support for Uzbekistan's valuable contributions to leadership in the region, and underscore the United States' commitment to stability in Uzbekistan and throughout CentralÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 27, 2018
Visiting U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon has met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev in Tashkent. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry says the sides discussed bilateral ties and international and regional issues at the meeting on March 26, before an international conferenceÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
On the sideline of the conference, I will met H.E President Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini and other heads of delegations,” Ghani tweeted. During the trip, Ghani will hold talks with his Uzbek counterpart President ShavkatÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 27, 2018
Following talks in Uzbekistan, more than 20 countries and organizations have declared their support for direct talks between the Kabul government and the Taliban to end the 16-year conflict in Afghanistan. A joint declaration issued at the end of the March 27 meeting in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, notedÃâà...
New Europe
March 26, 2018
The State Department said Shannon would discuss with Uzbek leaders “the progress made under Mirziyoev's reform agenda, reaffirm support for Uzbekistan's valuable contributions to leadership in the region, and underscore the United States' commitment to stability in Uzbekistan and throughout CentralÃâà...
TASS
March 26, 2018
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is due to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Central Asian country's capital of Tashkent on ... on Afghanistan, "Peace Process, Security Cooperation and Regional Connectivity," will take place in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent on March 26-27.
TOLOnews
March 25, 2018
From March 25-27, delegations from across the region and around the world will gather in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to discuss peace in Afghanistan. Co-hosted by the Afghan government, the conference follows countless other efforts to breathe life into the peace process in Afghanistan. The official conference isÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 24, 2018
From March 25-27, delegations from across the region and around the world will gather in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, specifically to confront the Afghanistan problem. The conference, co-hosted with the Afghan government, follows innumerable other efforts to breathe life into the peace process inÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 2, 2018
TASHKENT (TCA) — Micro, small and medium-sized private businesses in Uzbekistan will now benefit from a new Regional Small Business Programme (RSBP) launched in Tashkent on March 1, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reported. The EU-funded and EBRDÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 2, 2018
“The Death of Stalin is hardly likely to get a widespread release in Tashkent, and that is why they picked Ilkhom, which is usually patronized by a selective section of the Uzbek public. But I think that the film needs to be shown, regardless of any historical inconsistencies and errors,” Nazarov said.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 1, 2018
Former Uzbek Interior Minister Zakir Almatov (second from left) is shown with other Uzbek security officials in Tashkent in 2005. ... Perhaps more than any other Uzbek official, Almatov's name is linked with the violent events -- some say massacre -- that took place in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Andijon onÃâà...
AzerNews
March 1, 2018
However, for this, it is necessary to restore 60 km of power lines from the Uzbek side, as well as implement a project on relay protection and automation. The minister further added that in 2017, Tajikistan produced over 18 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. Presently, Uzbekistan imports electricity fromÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 1, 2018
The Tashkent Times also noted that since 2010 only two of 16 checkpoints between the two countries were in operation and that the Uzbek government had recently approved a decision to resume operations at nine border checkpoints — eight on highways and one via rail. Tajik excitement seems focusedÃâà...
Trend News Agency
March 1, 2018
Tashkent is to hold the international WorldBuild Tashkent 2018 Construction exhibition, previously known as "UzBuild", Uzbek media reported on March 1. The exhibition is organized by Iteca Exhibition and its partner, ITE Group. According to the information of ITE Uzbekistan, 171 company from 24Ãâà...
AZERTAC News
February 22, 2018
Tashkent has hosted the first Uzbek-Azerbaijani business forum at the initiative of the National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers') Organisations of Azerbaijan Republic (ASK), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan's embassy in Uzbekistan. Azerbaijani ambassadorÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
Russia, US, China invited to Afghanistan conference in Tashkent - Uzbek foreign minister ... received invitations to attend the international conference on peace and security in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said on Friday after talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
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