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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9419
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/uzbekistan

MEPs call for sanctions to be kept in place

Brussels, 03/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - Less than two weeks before the next General Affairs-External Relations Council, on 14 May, which is due to review the sanctions imposed by the EU in October 2005 against Uzbekistan's leaders following the Andijan massacre, the European Parliament human rights sub-committee, on Wednesday, applied pressure on the Council not to lift these measures. “No headway” has been made either in Tashkent's investigations into the Andijan massacre or the case of...

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