Filed at 7:11 a.m. ET TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Uzbekistan on Monday to fulfill its international human rights commitments and take further steps toward improving the repressive political climate in the Central Asian nation. In a speech to students at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Ban did not cite specific complaints and stayed away from any mention of Uzbekistan's 2005 brutal suppression of an uprising in the city of Andijan. But the...
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