The Statement

of The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan

06-17-2005

After the bloodshed in Andijan the relationship between the US and Uzbekistan is fundamentally changing. Some US organizations have left Uzbekistan or are being forced to leave Uzbekistan by the Tashkent government. And now there is speculations that US air force which is located in Khanabad will leave Uzbekistan and Uzbek government is restricting U.S. military flights. Also, the international community has called for using sanctions against Uzbekistan. Because of this the Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan has

Declared:

1.This are not easy days for the Uzbek people, the US must stay with the 26 million Uzbeks. The US should not live Uzbekistan in the hand of powers like Russia and China.

2.The US must demonstrate that its goal is to place Uzbekistan on the road to democracy. This is in the interest of the Uzbek people.

3.It is against of strategic interest of Uzbeks, to move of US forces out of Khanabad to another location. Many NGOs have already left Uzbekistan. To the contrary, the US must pressure the Uzbek government through International organizations. The Uzbek government has an obligations allow the return of US NGOs to Tashkent. And sanctions must not against Uzbek people, but against Karimov and his regime.

4. We strongly support of US calls for independent investigate Andijan events and the US must call for international investigations in the EU and in the UN. If these events are not independently investigate this will constitute a victory for Dictatorship and a defeat for Democracy.

The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan