The Kremlin on Monday described the deadly incidents in the Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan as an “internal matter” that concerns only Tashkent.
Speaking to reporters, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow considers Uzbekistan a “friendly country” and added he had no doubt President Zafkat Mirziyoyev’s government would work to resolve the issue.
At least eighteen people were killed and 243 injured in last week’s riots in the impoverished region (officially an autonomous “republic”) of northwestern Uzbekistan, following mass demonstrations against a plan to revise the constitution that notably saw the region of 2 million people lose its its “sovereign” status and the right to organize a referendum on its self-determination.
The Uzbek authorities, who declared a state of emergency until August in Karakalpakstan, were forced to announce after the incidents that the articles of the Constitution concerning it would remain in place.
SOURCE: AMPE
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