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Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan: At the NATO Summit

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 05:22 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Topics:: International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Patrick Frost opines on the participation of two important Central Asian guests, Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov and Turkmenistan’s leader, President Berdymukhammedov, in the NATO Summit in Bucharest.

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