USA to impose sanctions against Uzbekistan because of Andijan events

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/80462-0/

A year after Islam Karimov’s regime suppressed the riot in the town of Andijan, the principal “interested parties” have not changed their attitudes towards the Andijan events. The United States and European Union have taken an extremely negative stand on Karimov while Russia has sided with Tashkent.







Speaking at a press conference in Washington last Friday, official representative of the U.S. Department of State Sean McCormack said that the U.S. might impose sanctions against Uzbekistan due to a refusal of the Uzbek authorities to allow an international investigation into the Andijan tragedy. “The United States is calling again on the Uzbek government to allow a full-scale and open international investigation into the events in Andijan. The United States also exhorts Uzbekistan to stop persecuting civil society and take steps to fulfill its international obligations as to human rights protection,” said McCormack. Earlier last week Senator John McCane (Republican, Ariz.) and Congressman Christopher Smith (Republican, NJ) proposed a bill aimed at imposing sanctions against Uzbekistan. The U.S. lawmakers submitted the bill to Congress as though to mark the first anniversary of Andijan tragedy. If passed by Congress, the bill would ban high-ranking Uzbek officials from entry to the United States, freeze their bank accounts opened with U.S. banks, and put an embargo on weapons and equipment sale to Uzbekistan. Senator McCormack said the U.S. administration was likely to back the bill.

Javier Solana, Secretary General and High Representative for the Common Foreign Policy and Security of the EU, has made a special statement on the occasion of the first anniversary of Andijan events. Solana extended his condolences to the families of the victims. He also took the opportunity to remind Tashkent of its commitments the UN and OSCE. “It is deeply regretful that the Uzbek authorities still refuse to heed the calls of the UE and other organizations to conduct a full investigation of those events,” says Solana’s statement.
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Bush has Iran being sanctioned and Chavez and now Uzbekistan. No wonder Putin was furious at Bush...

[cliss]

1. The plot thickens....

now, just Who was Dick "Black Gold" Cheney visiting in Uzbekistan last week? I don't think it was "Mr. Charming" Islam Karimov because his name never came up. But Cheney was definitely over there, praising someone and at the same time, blasting away at Moscow and royally pissing off Putin.

OMG....as I was reading your thread, it occurred to me that we've let the Genie out of the bottle. We've loosened the moorings which have held this world together by our flagrant behavior.

Does anybody really believe Karimov is going to bow and scrape, after what WE'VE done in his own backyard? I'm fully expecting TwinkleToes to give Bush the finger, right on worldwide news.

Look at Chavez, Morales and Ahmadinejad. Are they groveling?

You're right, Lovuian: the moorings have been cut loose.

[lovuian]

2. Hey Cliss this is really the BIG News isn't it and yet I have to

get it from Russia... this is WHY Putin is ticked

Uzekbistan is the prize and Putin wants it and Bush wants it... who will get it

I'm placing my bets on Putin... :rofl:

[cliss]

3. Aha.....two Suitors....

Who will get the prize? Now I understand why that old goat went to Uzbekistan last week.

I made up a poem, just for the occasion:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Cheney wants Uzbekistan
And Putin does too.

[lovuian]

5. LOL!!!

:rofl: great poem!!!

[enigma000]

6. Cheney went to Kazakhstan last week not Uzbekistan

I doubt he would be welcome there. He also visited Lithuania and Croatia.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. The World watches as the USA flounders in Iraq - the "fear" factor is gone

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Disrespect and hatred for the USA grows

The "Rise" of the the United States Empire has ended

The "Fall" has begun

1929 may be seen as "good times" for the USA

The backlash cometh

And long overdue