News Agency HARAKAT - 10 December 2009

• 01:49Blog: My son-in-law, the prisoner of conscience

  People are taking part in Amnesty International's Write for Rights action this week by writing letters and signing petitions to show solidarity with individuals who suffer human right abuses. Talib Yakubov is the father-in-law of prisoner of conscience Azam Farmonov, who has been detained in Uzbekistan since 2006 after he and Alisher Karamatov defended the rights of local farmers. Talib Yakubov is also the Vice President of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan and now resides in France. ...

• 01:39 China, Uzbekistan Vow to Boost Sustainable Development of Trade Relations

  Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met here on 4 December with his Uzbekistan counterpart Elyor Ganiev, pledging to promote the healthy and sustainable development of economic and trade ties. Wang conveyed congratulation on the success of the eighth session of the China-Uzbekistan Economic and Trade Cooperation Committee, Xinhua reported. He said since the two countries forged diplomatic ties, high-level exchanges were frequent and the cooperation in such areas as economic and trade, energy ...

• 01:34Russian president says journalists must tell truth, but freedom of speech hard to define

  MOSCOW — Russia's president said Wednesday that journalists must follow their mission by reporting the truth, but the limits of free speech are hard to determine. Dmitry Medvedev's remarks to an international journalists' forum reflected ambivalence about the news media in Russia, where all national television stations are state-run or under heavy state influence and where independent journalists have been killed and intimidated. "It's a complex philosophical theme - where are the limits, ...

• 01:32 Germany Charges Suspected Islamist Terrorist

  BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors have charged a 24-year-old man with helping a radical Islamist group whose followers have confessed to planning attacks on U.S. targets in Germany. The federal prosecutor's office said it had charged the man it identified as Kadir T. with supporting the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an organization often linked to a militant Islamist movement that originated in Uzbekistan. Four men affiliated to the IJU and known as the "Sauerland group" are on trial in t...

• 01:24LCCI team leaves for 4-day visit to Uzbekistan

  LAHORE: An eleven-member business delegation, headed by LCCI Executive Committee Member, Mian Tariq Rehman, left for Tashkent on Tuesday on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan. The delegation has in its fold businessmen belonging to pharmaceuticals, textiles, chemicals, foodstuff, biotechnology, steel, construction, furniture, travel and tourism. The delegation is scheduled to have a number of high-profile business meetings and working lunches including one-on-one meeting at Tashkent Chamber of...

• 16:45Parliament speakers address TurkPA plenary meeting in Baku

  Parliament speakers of the participant countries addressed the first plenary meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic-speaking Countries (TurkPA) in Baku. Chairman of the Kazakhstan parliament Oral Muhamedjanov wished TurkPA to be a strong organization like Council of Europe, OSCE and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. “We would like to see the organization to promote economic relations between the countries, to make legislative basis closer and to develop interparliament...

• 12:57Uzbekistan urges checks of hydro plants over Siberian dam accident

  Independent inspections should be carried out at a number of hydroelectric power plants in connection with the recent deadly accident at a Siberian hydroelectric station last month, Uzbekistan's foreign minister said. Water surged into the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant on Siberia's Yenisei River on August 17 destroying a turbine hall and killing 75 people, presumably as a result of "technical and administrative faults." Speaking at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly, Vlad...

• 04:12THE EUROPEAN UNION - UZBEKISTAN: NORMALIZATION of ATTITUDES ONLY in exchange for DEMOCRATIZATION!

  «Б И Р Л И К»   Х А Л  Қ    Ҳ А Р А К А Т И    П А Р Т И Я С И   P O P U L A R   M O V E M E N T   «B I R L I K»   P A R T Y (Chairman - Abdurahim Polat: 1-703-455-9053, General Secretary – Vasila Inoyat: 998-71-395-3066, info@birlik.net) November 6, 2006  THE EUROPEAN UNION - UZBEKISTAN: NORMALIZATION of ATTITUDES ONLY in exchange for DEMOCRATIZATION! As is known, the western...

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