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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8952

24 May 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/uzbekistan
EU builds pressure on Uzbekistan to agree to independent international investigation into recent violence

Brussels, 23/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The foreign ministers of the EU, meeting on 23 May for the “External Relations” Council under the presidency of Luxembourg's Jean Asselborn, described themselves as “profoundly concerned” by recent developments in eastern Uzbekistan, and appealed to the Tashkent authorities to accede to UN requests to conduct an independent international investigation into recent violent acts of repression by security forces against the opposition. “The...

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