PRESIDENTS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY MEET IN ST PETERSBURG
Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov takes a seat at the beginning of the Eurasian Economic Community summit at the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, January 25, 2006. Heads of several ex-Soviet countries hold a summit that aims to restore economic ties lost after the 1991 Soviet collapse, (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's travels in Asia include visits to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the State Department said Friday.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Human-rights groups are condemning the decision to allow Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, to show her clothing line in New York.
NEW DELHI, May 19 (UPI) -- New Delhi said during meetings with Uzbek officials it could join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a full member in order to advance energy security.
BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- European leaders weren't tough enough when they pressed the president of Uzbekistan on human rights issue, Human Rights Watch alleges.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The United Nations is called on to aid an independent investigation into ethnic violence in June in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Uzbek president said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- As Washington and NATO grapple with Afghanistan's insurgency in the wake of rising tension and the recent presidential election debacle, policymakers should reconsider the options set forward by Uzbek President Islam Karimov during last April's NATO summit in Bucharest to expand the United Nations' "6 plus 2" working group on Afghanistan to include the alliance in its deliberations to resolve Afghanistan's problems.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov invited his counterpart in Uzbekistan to attend the inauguration of a transnational gas pipeline to China.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, June 29 (UPI) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, seeking wider ties with resource-rich Uzbekistan, says bilateral trade with the Central Asian nation is growing rapidly.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, June 17 (UPI) -- Uzbekistan cut natural gas supplies to Tajikistan over a failure to pay its $17.5 million in debt, executives in Tajikistan said.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Uzbekistan is prepared to sell 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to Russia in 2009, President Islam Karimov said during a meeting with Russian officials.
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