From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 11:13:45 EDT
UZBEK SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS SIGN ANTI-TERRORISM TREATY
Meeting in Tashkent on 21 April, the presidents of Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan signed a 10-year
treaty on joint efforts to combat terrorism, political and
religious extremism, transnational organized crime, and other
threats to security and stability, Interfax reported.
Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov and Tajikistan's Imomali Rakhmonov
told journalists after the signing that one of the main
threats to regional stability is the war in Afghanistan.
Meeting in Moscow the same day, the interior ministers of the
so-called Bishkek group comprising the five signatory states
to the Shanghai Agreement (Russia, China, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan) adopted an appeal to their
respective heads of state containing specific proposals on
cooperation in combatting crime, Interfax reported. LF
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