In Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Leader Conciliatory over Water Water was the hot topic as the leaders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan met in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, on June 14. Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, struck a conciliatory note over access to Central Asian water resources, a subject which Uzbek leader Islam Karimov last year warned could lead to war. “A great deal depends for our future on how [Central Asian states] cooperate and ...
June 14, 2013 - EurasiaNet