Uzbek President Islam Karimov (C) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) as Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov (L) watches at Samarkand Airport November 1, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/Pool
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday met Uzbekistan’s autocratic ruler and officials from other Central Asian states accused of being among the world’s worst human rights offenders.
But in the talks in the ancient city of Samarkand, he tempered any public criticism as he sought deeper U.S. ties with the region seen increasingly as lying in the shadow of an assertive Russia and exposed to Islamist militancy.
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