Brussels, 25/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Brushing aside press criticism of his bilateral meeting with Uzbek President Islam Karimov on Monday 24 January (see EUROPE 10300), NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen highlighted the needs resulting from the conflict in Afghanistan. There were two reasons for his agreeing to meet Karimov, he said: firstly, the NATO-Uzbekistan partnership; and secondly, the role that Uzbekistan can play in the supply of Western troops in Afghanistan (Ed: as...