News Agency HARAKAT - 17 November 2015

• 10:05David Cameron has demonstrated that he does not understand the nature of Islamic terrorism

  British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking at the reception of the Lord Mayor of the City yesterday, apparently broke the tradition that has been going on for years in this reception and spoke mainly about issues of the fight against extremism. Obviously, says correspondent of Agency "Harakat", that the bloody events in Paris forced David Cameron to talk about Islamic terrorism at the reception in the City, but he preferred to use the words "terrorism" and "extremism" instead of "Islamic t...

• 19:48US Vice-President: Religious freedom is the key to fighting extremism. The leader of the “Birlik” Party: Religious freedom is the key against extremism is only if religion accepts the principle of secularism.

  Associated Press quoted the words of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden who said during the ceremony of presentation of the highest human rights awards of the Greek Orthodox Church in one of the temples in New York. According to Joe Biden, it is a moral obligation of society to protect religious freedom in order to protect society from the spread of violent extremism. As known, today, when we speak about extremism and terrorism, almost everyone means Islamic extremism and terrorism. Therefore it is ...

• 15:53Obama has decided to increase the number of troops that will remain in Afghanistan, but according to Abdulrahim Polat it is not a solution to the main problem

  Today President Barack Obama announced his new decision related to the number of U.S. troops that would be in Afghanistan after 2016. The number of U.S. and other NATO allied troops was more than 100,000 in Afghanistan before 2010, and this number was sharply reduced to 10,000 in recent years. This was well-known to everyone, because USA and NATO officials announced this at the time. Additionally, it was well known that President Barack Obama planned to reduce the number of US troops in Afgh...

• 07:00New York court continues hearings on Uzbek ISIS supporters but will it take into account the role of NGOs of U.S. in this criminal case?

  The website of the New York Post newspaper published an article yesterday entitled "Brooklyn ISIS wannabe who vowed to kill Obama takes plea deal." The article says that Uzbek national, Abdurasul Juraboev, urged people over the internet in Uzbek language to join with the terrorist organization, promised to kill President Barack Obama, and expressed interest in arranging an explosion at Coney Island. As we know from the news, Juraboev has three associates who will all be judged individually. ...

• 07:30 Tiny sensation: “Harakat” News Agency's (Uzbekistan) representative participated at the Camp David press conference

  Yesterday, State Secretary John Kerry held a meeting in Camp David (US President’s residence) with President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and Prime Minister Abdullo Abdulloh. Then they held a joint press conference. There was no sensational news about the US-Afghan relations at the press conference. But it seems that the proposal of Ashraf Ghani to raise the number of American troops in his country, made a few days before his visit to the United States, will be received positively. This i...

• 20:36"Ezgulik" presented the annual report in the US Embassy and drew attention to the new aspects of existing problems

  Today, February 17, 2015, the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan "Ezgulik" presented “Human rights situation report – 2014” in the US Embassy in Tashkent. The presentation meeting was lead by new US Ambassador Pamela Spratlen. There were representatives Tashkent offices of the United Nations, the European Union, the OSCE, the World Bank and National Democratic Institute. as well as ambassadors or representatives of embassies of the Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Cze...

• 17:03The killing of a black man in the United States caused a storm of demonstrations

  On August 9 in the town of Ferguson near St. Louis - Missouri Center - Caucasian police officer Darren Wilson, 28, shot a young black man named Michael Brown, 18, who was suspected of robbing a store and resisting police. Since then, a number of cities in the United States held demonstrations, which mostly involved black Americans. In some cities, for example, in St. Louis demonstrations turned into riots The situation became so bad that the local authorities were forced to use methods that t...

• 04:04Read real news and visit the website of the Uzbek Agency "Harakat": It is a little bit late, but the Georgians began to understand the realities. When will the Uzbeks?

  Everyone knew that the head of the organization Georgian Dream, which won the Georgian parliamentary elections in October 2012, was a Russian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who has a state of 6 billion U.S. dollars. However, few people realize that he is a man of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that on behalf of Putin, he arrived in Georgia in order to bribe the Georgians and to oust present Georgian leader Mikhail Sakashvilli. Among those who not only knew, but who were sure of it and wr...

• 23:31Who is Abdurahim Polat?

  Abdurahim Polat was born in 1945 in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan. He graduated from the Moscow Technical University in 1968. He gradually became a doctor of technical sciences and a professor in the field of information technologies and intellectual robots. During major changes implemented by Gorbachev, he became involved in politics. He participated in the activities of "Birlik" which was founded in 1988 as the first organization in Uzbekistan opposing the policies of the existing Soviet ...

• 22:15Members of “Birlik” Party had visited the office of European Union in Uzbekistan

  Today afternoon following members of the opposition of “Birlik” Party held a meeting with Chairman of Political Department of EU in Tashkent Ondrej Shimek: Deputy Chairman of opposition “Birlik” Party - Daynov Tashanov, General Secretary - Vasilya Inoyat, Chairman of Tashkent city organization of “Birlik” Hayit Abdulla, Chairman of Fergana region organization of “Birlik” Adham Muhiddin, Chairman of Andijan region organization of “Birlik” Musajon Bobojon, Chairman of Sirdarya region organization ...