Ambassador/Uzbekistan

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Employment.png Ambassador/Uzbekistan
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In 2004, Craig Murray resigned as Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan after revealing that the UK government knowingly used intelligence obtained by Uzbek torture, including boiling people to death.

Start1991
InterestsUzbekistan
Ambassadors to the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan

Ambassadors to Uzbekistan are the highest diplomatic representatives to the Central Asia country of Uzbekistan.

As of 2024, the capital of Tashkent hosts 48 embassies.[1]

History

Uzbekistan is a member of the United Nations, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, Partnership for Peace, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). It belongs to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Economic Cooperation Organization, which comprises 7 Central Asian countries: Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikistan.

Uzbekistan is also a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and hosts the SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) in Tashkent. Uzbekistan is also candidate state of the new Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikistan.

Craig Murray

Full article: Craig Murray

In 2004, Craig Murray resigned as Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan after revealing that the UK government knowingly used intelligence obtained by Uzbek torture.


 

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