Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
December 10

A three-day international conference entitled "The Tashkent resolution against religious and political terrorism and extremism: three years after" opened in [the Uzbek capital] Tashkent today. The organizing committee told the ITAR-TASS that the conference was the logical continuation of the "Religion and Democracy" conference that was held in November 1999. According to the organizing committee, the conference will discuss religious accord, safeguarding freedom of confession, and relations between states and religions in Central Asia. It will also discuss the factors causing terrorism and extremism and ways of fighting them.

Prominent scholars from Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Egypt and Romania, as well as from Central Asian states are attending the conference, which has been organized by the Academy for State and Societal Development under the president of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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