Putin Tells Uzbek Premier Stability Is Key as Succession Begins
- ‘Strategic partnership’ with Russia will go on, Mirziyoev says
- Uzbekistan seeks new president after death of Islam Karimov
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President Vladimir Putin told a potential successor to the late Uzbek leader Islam Karimov that stability is the key to governing as he pledged that Russia “will do everything” to maintain ties with the central Asian state.
Putin held talks with Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoev on Tuesday after laying flowers at Karimov’s grave in the city of Samarkand during a stop on his return from the Group of 20 summit in China. Karimov’s death last week at age 78 ended his more than 27-year rule as the second-longest leader of a former Soviet state.