Uzbekistan News

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Thank you, cotton-growers! That'll be it for now. Translation of Musafirbek 's post For the past few days, Uzbekistan's media has been littered with painfully Soviet-style headlines: "A Great Victory for Our Cotton-Growers," "The Nation Praises the Heroes in Her Fields," and so on.

We are at the end of the Silk Road and I am sad to say goodbye to the half imagined, long- redundant trade path that has so ignited our imaginations and offered us such adventures.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 2 /Trend News, D.Azizov/

The first group of pilgrims from Uzbekistan will leave for Saudi Arabia on Nov. 10, the Uzbek Board of Muslims reported.

Translation of mursya a s post This was the question addressed by blogger bellamar , who shared his point of view with neweurasia.net. Ita s a pity that wea re in the middle of a crisis.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Oct. 31 / Trend News D.Azizov /

The Uzbek Women's Committee and a UNDP project "Legislative and Institutional Capacity Development for Women's Empowerment in Uzbekistan" held a seminar on "Legal guarantees of women's rights protection from discriminative customs, forced and early marriages" in the city of Nukus, Karakalpakstan, for doctors.

Azerbaijan, Baku, October 29 / Trend News, V.Zhavoronkova, E.Ostapenko /

EU sanctions against Uzbekistan were not extended, since the strategic cooperation between Uzbekistan and the EU is much more important for the EU than for Uzbekistan, said Andrea Schmitz, European specialist on Central Asian issues.

Azerbaijan, Baku, October 28 /Trend News, V.Zhavoronkova /

By dropping sanctions with regards to Uzbekistan at this stage, the European Union (EU) failed to stay true to its principles, said Veronika Szente Goldston, Advocacy Director for Europe and Central Asia at Human Rights Watch.

Azerbaijan, Baku, October 28 / Trend News V. Zhavoronkova /

Full abolition of EU sanctions against Uzbekistan testifies serious failure of the West, Russian expert on Central Asia, Arkady Dubnov, said.

The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met the chairman of the Council for Rail Transport of the Commonwealth of Independent States, President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin at Oqsaroy Residence on 27 October.

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to lift an embargo on arms supplies to Uzbekistan, a spokesman said, RIA Novosti reported.

A Spanish traveller, who arrived here at the Youth Hostel on Friday afternoon, the day when suicide bombers went on murderous spree in Kamra and Peshawar, is a living example in this regard.

Friday, October 23, 2009 Islamabad The incident of firing on army jeep in which two army personnel were killed here on Thursday has been widely condemned.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Work has been completed on the Turkmen section of a pipeline that is due to begin transporting natural gas from the energy-rich Central Asian nation to China by the end of the year, state media reported Friday.

Rich of natural and human resources, developed industry and communications, social and economic infrastructure the Ferghana region is highly significant for overall development of the country.

The European Union is preparing to lift sanctions against Uzbekistan, introduced after Andijan killings, trying to improve ties with Central Asian states to help secure and diversify future energy supplies, Reuters report with the reference to anonymous EU diplomats.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 20 / Trend Capital /

The Azerbaijani delegation which will be headed by the head of the Azerbaijan Railways Arif Asgarov will pay a visit to Tashkent to attend the 51st meeting of Railway Transport Council of the CIS countries on Oct.27-28, the company said on Oct.20.

In the latest research report published by Fraser Mackenzie, a renowned Canadian securities firm, Tethys Petroleum Limited was rated at "Strong Buy" with a target price of C$1.0. Mr Vic Vallance, the author of the research report and a leading Canadian energy analyst with over 20 years of experience in equity analysis in the oil and gas sector, ...

Azerbaijan, Baku, October 20 / Trend Capital V. Zhavoronkova /

Growth of Uzbek GDP hit 8 percent in January-September, surplus of state budget - 0.2 percent to GDP. These data were voiced at a meeting of the Uzbek Cabinet of Ministers, the Uzbek embassy to Azerbaijan said.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Oct. 19 /Trend Capital, K.Konyrova/

Uzbekistan has cancelled its decision to withdraw from the United Power System (UPS) of Central Asia, Spokesman of the KEGOC national company, Marat Muhamedsaliev told Trend Capital