Press Release
While America Supports Genocide in Gaza, It Enters Uzbekistan as a Security Partner!
On August 28, 2025, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev received the US President's Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, Paolo Zampolini. According to a press release from the Presidential Press Service: "During the meeting, the strategic partnership relations between Uzbekistan and America and the expansion of multifaceted cooperation were discussed."
During the meeting, issues of economic and security cooperation took priority. It was noted that the most important event is the Expanded Strategic Partnership meeting to be held in the fall of this year.
According to the growth rate of economic cooperation between the two countries, the movement of goods increased by 15% in 2024. Currently, the portfolio of joint projects exceeds $11 billion. According to the President's Press Service: "Emphasis was placed on establishing effective cooperation between the two countries in the areas of security, terrorism, extremism, and illegal immigration."
America implements the economic cooperation model through its affiliated structures; the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and financial companies. Investment through these structures leads to the activation of a political pressure mechanism through debt pressure in the future. Thus, the country's economy and political decisions will be under Washington's control. The clear evidence of this is that Uzbekistan's public debt has exceeded $70 billion, and the burden of debt and taxes is increasing on the shoulders of the people.
America also offers "cooperation" in the security sector, and the question is, where has America achieved security?! In Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya?! Under the guise of defending democracy, the blood of a very large number of innocent people has been shed in these countries for decades, and cities and villages have been destroyed. In Gaza, America is leading this historic genocide with its strong support for the usurping Jewish entity that kills dozens of children and women every day. Therefore, it is certain that the slogans raised by America, such as combating terrorism and security cooperation, hide behind them the introduction of its intelligence into the country, controlling internal operations, and a strategy aimed at ensuring its security, not the security of Uzbekistan.
Therefore, the path that America proposes in the name of "partnership" is actually a path of danger and traps. Its economic "aid" is debt and dependency, and its security partnership is the threat of external control and instability.
We say to the Mirziyoyev regime that your first and most urgent task is to prioritize the interests of Islam and Muslims when establishing any relations with colonial America, which is committing massacres and famines against Muslims in the world, especially in Gaza, with its hatred and colonial ambitions. We warn that its policy based on hypocrisy may drag Uzbekistan and the entire region into dangerous geopolitical games and cause instability.
O Muslims of Uzbekistan: The cooperation that the regime offers you in the name of "economic development and providing security" only leads to an increase in the suffering imposed on you by colonial powers such as America, Russia, China, and Western countries. How long will you remain silent about the political and economic pressures of this regime and its violations of your beliefs, and bear on your heads the stigma of "slave" and "black worker"?! However, isn't all of this due to these very "cooperations"?! The solution is one, which is that unless you live as one nation with all Muslims under the righteous Caliphate state that applies God's law to you, you will never be liberated from the humiliation and servitude you live in today! However, we remind once again that holding the ruler accountable, examining his actions based on Sharia standards, and correcting him immediately if he deviates from the truth, that is, enjoining good and forbidding evil, is your responsibility placed upon your shoulders. God Almighty says: ﴿You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah﴾.
The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan