Fighting terror should not be Islamophobia: Uzbek FM

United Nations, Oct 03: Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov has called on the members of the United Nations (UN) to prevent the fight against terrorism from turning into Islamophobia.

"We are coming out most resolutely against the transformation of this fight into Islamophobia and into overt or covert confrontation with the Islamic world," he stated in the course of the Tuesday general political discussion at the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly.

Touching on the problem of regional security, the Uzbek minister noted that "the currently shaping up situation in central Asia is intertwined by many contradictory processes is an intertwined knot of numerous contradictory processes, which are apt to negatively affect the cause of security" not only in this region, but far beyond its bounds, too.

In connection with this, Norov urged the international community to exert every effort to stabilise the situation in Afghanistan. This problem should be resolved by demilitarising the country and tackling its most acute socio-economic problems, the minister noted.

He also went on record for measures to "stem the narcotics aggression, emanating from that country, which is now assuming dangerous dimensions".

Bureau Report
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