The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirzieev replied to the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who had lost his country to the problem after Kazakhstan. This is reported in the Telegram-channel of the spokesman for Mirzieev Sherzod Assadov.
As written by Asadov, Mirzieev at a meeting of the Security Council “expressed an opinion on the statements of the heads of some states regarding Uzbekistan.”
“The other day, from the heads of some states, unreasonable statements were made that Uzbekistan should learn lessons from the events in Kazakhstan. We carefully follow the situation in the region, all challenges and threats of its security,” the President of Uzbekistan said.
Mirzieev added that Tashkent has “necessary potential and power for an adequate response to any threat.”
Lukashenko, speaking at the session of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), dedicated to events in Kazakhstan, prejudice similar problems in Uzbekistan. According to him, there were a lot of international terrorists on the border of Kazakhstan and “those who wish to blow up the situation around the Central Asian post-Soviet republics.”
“Lessons who were talking about, should be removed, sorry for this, first of all, Uzbekistan. If these lessons are not extracted, according to our information, their views were thrown including Uzbekistan,” said Lukashenko, without specifying whose glances are talking about.
The representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Sadkov called this statement to the topic to communicate Minsk with Tashkent.