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"Mr President, it is vital that this country, with its enormous wealth, particularly in terms of gas, should not be destabilised. That is not in our, or anyone’s, interest. We have to concede that there are fundamentalist elements in that country, but they must not be used as a pretext for keeping the Uzbek people in a straightjacket, because that is precisely what is happening. The government of President Karimov uses this spectre, this more or less genuine threat from fundamentalists, as a way of keeping his oppressive regime in power.
I believe that we must keep up the pressure on the Uzbek Government and on President Karimov. We must urge him to accept an international inquiry and clearly show our solidarity. From that point of view, the resolution you are about to adopt is important. We must make it clear that the European Union will not tolerate the attitudes and policies seen in recent weeks.
Far from destabilising the country, this solidarity must be a way of stabilising it in order to foster democracy, because that is our aim. I believe that no other pretexts, even serious ones, such as the issue of fundamentalism, can prevent us from bringing strong pressure to bear on that government, one of the most dictatorial regimes in the entire region."@en1
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