Diplomat meets president Islam Karimov and officials from other central Asian countries as US seeks to deepen ties in region amid concerns over RussiaSecretary of State John Kerry on Sunday met Uzbekistan’s autocratic ruler and officials from other Central Asian states accused of being among the world’s worst human rights offenders.
In the talks in the ancient city of Samarkand, he tempered any public criticism as he sought deeper US ties with a region seen increasingly as lying in the shadow of an assertive Russia and exposed to Islamist militancy.
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Source: theguardian.com