The U.S. interests and role in Central Asia after K2

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 141-154

  Rumer, Eugene ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33744786026     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/wash.2006.29.3.141     Document Type: Article

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2. For the most recent official U.S. statement on the Andijon events, see the U.S. Department of State, "The 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uzbekistan," March 8, 2006, http://www.usembassy.uz/home/index.aspx?&=&mid=594&lid= 1.
3. See also "Ambassador Purnell's Letter to the Editor Corrects the Record on U.S.-Uzbek Relations Post-Andijon," June 15, 2005, http://www.usembassy.uz/home/index.aspx?&=&mid=491 (to the Uzbek newspaper Narodnoe Slovo).
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29. Meppen, "U.S.-Uzbek Bilateral Relations."
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