DEC. 15 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — A court in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh jailed 5 more Uzbek men for murder during ethnic violence in June. Human rights groups have said that Uzbeks are being unfairly punished for the violence during which about 400 people, mainly Uzbeks, died.
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(News report from Issue No. 20, published on Dec. 20 2010)
DEC. 16 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Tajikistan has rejected a new air traffic
control agreement with Uzbekistan, RFE/RL’s Tajik service reported. The new deal
was supposed to be a permanent replacement for the 16 year old agreement Uzbekistan ripped up this summer. Relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have deteriorated throughout the year.
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(News report from Issue No. 20, published on Dec. 20 2010)
SEPT. 12 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Cables from WikiLeaks show how US diplomats detailed the rise of Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s eldest daughter Gulnara, who they described as “the single most hated person in the country”. From Dushanbe, cables described how the US competed with Russia for influence
and how in 2006 US diplomats drunk the Tajik defence minister “well under the table”.
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(News report from Issue No. 19, published on Dec. 13 2010)
DEC. 1 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the
United States delegation to the OSCE summit in Kazakhstan and then visited Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan before heading off to Bahrain. In Tashkent, Ms Clinton said Uzbekistan needed to improve its human rights record.
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DEC. 3 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — British bank RBS sold its 82.35% stake in its Uzbek subsidiary to the Korean Development Bank (KDB) for an undisclosed amount. News reports said that on Dec. 31 2009 the RBS subsidiary held assets worth around $365m. KDB will merge the unit with its subsidiary to become the biggest foreign bank in Uzbekistan.
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NOV. 24 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh sentenced 17 ethnic Uzbeks to life in prison and two more to 25 years for the murder of 16 Kyrgyz during rioting in June. About 370 mainly ethnic Uzbeks died in the ethnic violence. Human rights groups have said Uzbeks are being blamed unfairly for the violence.
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(News report from Issue No. 17, published on Nov. 29 2010)
NOV. 25 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – The heads of governments of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states met in Dushanbe to discuss increasing humanitarian and economic cooperation. They were candid about the results other than to say they had agreed to boost regional aid. Founded in 2001, the SCO consists of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran hold observer status and attended the meeting.
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NOV. 29 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – In the wake of WikiLeaks’ publication of confidential files from US Embassies around the world, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will visit Central Asia this week. She flies to Kazakhstan for an OSCE summit on Dec. 1, 2010 and then visits Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan before flying on to Bahrain.
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NOV. 23/24 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov flew to Qatar and signed bilateral agreements promising closer ties between the energy producing nations. This was Karimov’s first trip to Qatar. He has previously spoken about increasing cooperation
with energy producers in the Middle East.
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NOV. 9 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Germany’s human rights commissioner called on the International Labour Organisation, a UN agency, to investigate Uzbekistan for using child labour to pick its cotton harvest. This is the sharpest criticism by a leading European figure of Uzbekistan’s alleged use of child labour. Uzbekistan has previously promised to stop the practice.
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(News report from Issue No. 15, published on Nov. 15 2010)
