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RUSSIA AND US BLOCK NATO CALL FOR PROBE INTO UZBEK MASSACRE

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created Wed Jun 15, 05

Published on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 by Agence France Presse

Russia, US Blocked NATO Call for Probe into Uzbek Massacre: Report

Russia and the United States reportedly blocked NATO last week from calling for an international probe into last month's clashes in Uzbekistan, in which hundreds of people were believed killed.

Defense officials prevailed over the State Department view that a probe was in order by arguing that an investigation could compromise US access to a military base in Uzbekistan they said was crucial in the fight against international terrorism.

US officials at a meeting Thursday of defense ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia and Ukraine discussed violence-torn Darfur, the Washington Post reported.

A closing statement said security issues in Central Asia, including Uzbekistan, had also been discussed without further details.

Britain and other European had pressed for NATO to include in the final statement a demand for an international investigation of the May 13 massacre in the Uzbek city of Andijan, but they were stopped by Russia and the United States, US and diplomatic officials told the daily.

Human rights groups say hundreds of people, many of them unarmed demonstrators, were killed as troops opened fire in Andijan after rebels seized government buildings. Uzbekistan's authorities have put the official death toll, including law enforcement officers, at 173.

According to The Washington Post's sources, the US delegation at the NATO meeting, which included Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and State Department officials disagreed over the proposed call to investigative action.

Defense officials prevailed over the State Department view that a probe was in order by arguing that an investigation could compromise US access to a military base in Uzbekistan they said was crucial in the fight against international terrorism, the daily said.

Russia argued against the probe by saying that the Andijan incident had been "inspired" by Afghanistan, the daily said.

European lawmakers also met Thursday at Strasbourg and called for the European Union to cut direct aid to Uzbekistan until it launched an independent inquiry into last month's clashes.

In their resolution, the European deputies urged the United States to suspend talks on an agreement that would allow it to maintain a military base in Uzbekistan in exchange for financial benefits, and look elsewhere in the region.

© Copyright 2005 AFP

Is it just me or does this simply stench of hypocrisy?

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COMMENTS:
Stench, but not at all surprising.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed Jun 15, 05 9:11am [+]

Bush and Putin: dictator lover boys.

by cranky on Wed Jun 15, 05 9:29am [+]

Ah c'mon ... are we going to let a little thing like cruel, repressive dictatorships get in the way of our ongoing global fight to spread freedom and democracy?

Er ... uh ... hmmm ...

by Cathexis on Wed Jun 15, 05 9:54am [+]

^So if they went into Uzbekistan, you'd approve of it, right?

by CletuSlackedJawYokel on Wed Jun 15, 05 1:34pm [+]

Cletus, if the United States attacked a superpower dictatorship (instead of defenseless third world nations) like Russia then I'd approve it.

PS. George W. Bush would never approve war in Uzbekistan since there are ARMED military personel defending it. If it was as defensless as Iraq then that's a different story.

by Kaiser on Wed Jun 15, 05 7:26pm [+]

Allow me to say my point over again: The US (under Bush at least) will never tell Russia to stop it's oppression in those countries because it is afraid of Russia and it's capabilities.

by Kaiser on Wed Jun 15, 05 7:29pm [+]

heheehaw. Who did the Karimov meet the day after the massacre?

Who signed a deal with Karimov on the day after the massacre?

Hmmmm it is not Bush or Putin.

by xxxxxxxx on Wed Jun 15, 05 9:05pm [+]

Who would Nato call on to undertake this International Probe? That is not the job of the UN.

by Tacitus on Sat Sep 17, 05 8:54am [+]

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