UzReport, Uzbekistan
Aug 18 2005

Uzbek envoy to Azerbaijan says Uzbekistan has no relations with
Karabakh separatists

UzReport.com [12:20] 18.08.2005

The Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan Ismatulla Irgashov sent
a response letter to the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO),
in which he said that Uzbekistan has no links with the occupation
regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, KLO told Trend news agency.

The report said the KLO chairman Akif Nagi applied to the
Uzbekistan Embassy and demanded to cease cooperation of this
country’s organisations with the Nagorno-Karabakh separatists in the
communication field.

In his return letter the Ambassador reported, the Unitel [mobile
operator] company, operating in Nagorno Karabakh is located in Tashkent
and is not Uzbek company. This company belongs to the Netherlands
and Greece.

The KLO chairman accepted the Ambassador’s explanations and noted,
the country took always an unbiased stand and even up to the moment
has not set up diplomatic relations with the occupation Armenia.

“We appreciate such a position of the fraternal Uzbekistan, anyhow,
we once again have to inform the government of Uzbekistan of our
concern over the setting up relations between the companies operating
in Uzbekistan with the occupation regime of Nagorno Karabakh,” the
KLO statement notes.