News Agency HARAKAT - 04 July 2010

• 21:40Tajikistan’s new type of pressure to Uzbekistan through Iran

  According to official news of Uzbekistan, Iran’s Roads and Transport minister Hamid Bekhboniy met with Uzbekistan’s vice-premier, Minister of Finance Rustam Azimov. Uzbekistan, taking into account that the larger part of its goods transported from the Persian Gulf go through Iran, asked Iran to lower the transport tariff rates. Tajikistan news agencies underlined the other side of the meeting. According to them, the objectives of the Iranian guest were -- to pressure Uzbekistan governmen...

• 16:45Gasoline prices went up, people concerned

  Since yesterday petrol prices went up to 15 % in the country. Due to the decision of Ministry of Republic of Uzbekistan, the lowest grade gasoline Au-80 - went up from 1065 to 1220 som per liter, Au-93 - 1350 som per liter. Because of the constant price raise, one may observe dissatisfaction among the people because Uzbekistan has independence in the petrol industry. Rising gasoline prices lead to other consequences like increase in net cost of goods and services. Note that: 1 gal = 3.7...

• 15:12Kazakhstan planning to produce 70 ton of gold in 2015, what about Uzbekistan?

  Yesterday, in 1st Kazakhstan Mineral Resources and Metallurgy International Congress, president of this country Nursultan Nazarbaev said that they plan to increase gold production an estimated 70 ton of gold per year in 2015. This way Kazakhstan will become one of the biggest producers of gold. At the end of the Soviet Union period Uzbekistan used to produce 100 ton of gold. Now days any information about this industry is kept in secret. In recent years, the price for gold doubled. Uzbeks ...

• 04:15American Diplomat disapproved sending back Uzbek refugees to Kyrgyzstan just like "Harakat" agency did earlier

  In today’s earlier news we evaluated sending Uzbek refugees back to Kyrgyzstan by Uzbekistan as a betrayal, and time will come for answers. Monolingual Russian gazeta.uz web site which is working under Uzbek government control, informs that Erik Schwartz, assistant of US State Secretary on Population, Refugees and Migrationmet with Uzbek officials to discuss situation with Uzbek refugees who fled from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan’s Fergana province. However, before the meeting, all refugees were ...

• 01:45U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake arrived in Andijan region

  Mr. Robert Blake arrived in Andijan region of Uzbekistan on Friday morning. During this trip, Blake intends to visit the camps of temporary accommodation of Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan to get acquainted with the conditions created for them in Uzbekistan and to assess the humanitarian situation. The visit of U.S. State Department’s high level representative to Uzbekistan began yesterday. Before the visit of Andijan, Mr.Blake met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir N...

• 17:00Uzbek democrats met with European Commission officials

  As it was informed, the group of Uzbekistan democratic opposition leaders, who had several meetings in Sweden parliament and Ministry of foreign affairs of this country, are now holding meetings with European Union officials in Brussels. This group included following members: the chairman of "Erk" party Samad Murod, the vice-chairmen of "Birlik" Party Pulat Okhun, Daynov Tashanov, Hamdam Sulaymonov, the chairman of Syrdarya regional organization of "Birlik" Party Isroil Risaev, and human rights ...

• 20:00First meeting of Uzbek democrats in Brussels was in Euro Parliament

  Yesterday, Uzbek democratic opposition leaders - the chairman of "Erk" Party Samad Murod, the vice-chairmen of "Birlik" Party Pulat Okhun, Daynov Tashanov, Hamdam Sulaymonov, the chairman of Sirdarya regional organization of "Birlik" Party Isroil Rizaev and rights activist Anvar Karimov met with Pablo Bartolozzi and his advisors in Euro Parliament in Brussels. Pablo Bartolozzi is the chairman of Euro Parliament committee of the relationship with Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tur...

• 14:46The meeting of Uzbek democrats in Sweden Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  As we informed earlier, the chairman of the "Erk" democratic party Samad Murodov, the vice-chairmen of "Birlik" Party Pulat Okhun, Daynov Tashanov and Hamdam Sulaymonov, the chairman of the party's Syrdarya regional organization Isroil Rizaev, and human rights and "Birlik" Party activist Anvar Karimov had a meeting in Swedish parliament. Then they visited the Sweden Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting took place as a round table conversation with the following Swedish participants: Sw...

• 08:43Uzbek democrats met OSCE delegation chairman in Swedish parliament

  Yesterday, Uzbekistan democratic opposition leaders’ delegation met with Swedish parliament delegation chairman in OSCE Mrs. Walburga Habsburg Douglas. Mrs. Douglas met highly respectful guests in the conference room of the Swedish parliament. Upon the discussion the sides exchanged their interested thoughts. Mrs. Douglas had an interest in freedom of speech, level of democratic abutment, trustworthiness of the democratic opposition parties in front of Uzbek people, and the relationship of th...

• 14:17Activists of Uzbek democratic opposition had a meeting in Swedish parliament

  As we informed earlier, the delegation of four Uzbek democratic opposition leaders who are leading activity inside of Uzbekistan arrived to Stockholm. They came with invitation from Central Asian Society, the office of which is located in Sweden. Yesterday the delegation activists - chairman of " Erk" democratic party Samad Murod, vice-chairmen of "Birlik" Party Daynov Tashanov and Hamdam Sulaymonov and chairman of Sirdarya regional organization of "Birlik" Party Isroil Rizaev together wit...