AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 19 2005

NATO SECRETARY GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY VISITS UZBEKISTAN
[March 19, 2005, 15:45:59]

A delegation headed by special envoy of the NATO Secretary General on
Central Asia and Caucasus Robert Simons has visited Uzbekistan.

In the news conference on conclusions of the visit, Mr. Simons said:
`In meeting in the Ali Majlis, as well as with the heads of
ministries of foreign affairs and defense, discussed were questions
of expansion of co-op between NATO and Uzbekistan, NATO assistance to
the force structures, combat against terrorism, situation in
Afghanistan, transitions from the territory of the country of
numerous cargo to Afghanistan’.

At the news conference, R. Simons also dwelt on the conflicts in the
CIS space, including the problem of Nagorno Karabakh. He noted that
visiting the Caucasus region, he discussed with the President of
Azerbaijan and Armenia the ways of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict, and the NATO, of course, is for peaceful resolution to the
said problem.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress