http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/03/kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-water-peace/ The official Web log for Great Decisions 2007 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/03/kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-water-peace/#comment-2615 Mon, 05 May 2008 13:09:35 +0000 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/03/kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-water-peace/#comment-2615 [...] As was discussed earlier on this page, the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan made efforts to create a Central Asian Union, which would include a water and energy consortium, a couple weeks ago, but Uzbekistan’s President Karimov quickly put a stop to this idea in his recent visit to Astana; “I want to state right away that this initiative is unacceptable for Uzbekistan.” Uzbekistan, the region’s largest consumer of water, seems to be playing regional power politics with Kazakhstan’s attempt at leading a regional forum, but this does not help in anyway the vital water issues of the region. [...] […] As was discussed earlier on this page, the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan made efforts to create a Central Asian Union, which would include a water and energy consortium, a couple weeks ago, but Uzbekistan’s President Karimov quickly put a stop to this idea in his recent visit to Astana; “I want to state right away that this initiative is unacceptable for Uzbekistan.” Uzbekistan, the region’s largest consumer of water, seems to be playing regional power politics with Kazakhstan’s attempt at leading a regional forum, but this does not help in anyway the vital water issues of the region. […]

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