Uzbek president’s second daughter…

Uznews.net – Uzbek President Islam Karimov must be proud of his daughters who are Uzbekistan’s ambassadors to UN agencies in Europe where they have become friends of A-list cinema and show business stars.

The president’s youngest daughter, Lola Karimova-Tillayeva, Uzbekistan’s ambassador to UNESCO, has hosted a reception in Paris on 8 April to present her new Uzbekistan 2020 charity fund.

Her website reported that the former First Lady of France Bernadette Chirac and the incumbent French president’s elder brother, Guillaume Sarkozy, a textile producer, had attended the reception.

French actor Alain Delon even kissed her hand, flattering her self-esteem.

The Uzbek president’s daughter was all glamorous, wearing diamonds and carrying a little silver bag.

What is it about the Uzbekistan 2020 fund that makes it possible for it to gather France’s beau monde around the daughter of one of the world’s most brutal dictators?

Karimova-Tillayeva’s website says that the fund aims to hold cultural and intellectual exchange between Uzbekistan and Europe and support children’s education and development in Uzbekistan. These aims should be achieved by 2020, which is why the fund is called Uzbekistan 2020.

The successful advancement of Lola Karimova and her sister Gulnara Karimova, who is Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the UN Office at Geneva, in the European high society is thanks to Europeans’ unawareness about the situation in Uzbekistan, believes Uzbek human rights activist Mutabar Tajibayeva, who is now in Paris.

“The French people know almost nothing about our country and that Gulnara and Lola are the daughters of the dictator who is responsible for the massacre of people in Andijan in 2005 and for the terrible human rights and economic situation in the country,” Tajibayeva said.

Tajibayeva has received France’s human rights award but she thinks that the award alone is not enough to create a public opinion about Uzbekistan and the Karimov family’s responsibility for repression, killings and torture in the country, she believes.

“The Karimov family bears personal responsibility for what Uzbekistan has been turned into under Islam Karimov’s rule and opposition and the public in Uzbekistan should show the true face of the dictator’s daughters to people in Europe,” Tajibayeva said.

“It is shameful and disgraceful that Delon kisses the hand of the blood-thirsty dictator’s daughter, and this is what we, Uzbeks, should work on,” she added.

Lola Karimova-Tillayeva’s Uzbekistan 2020 fund also acknowledges that the West knows little about Uzbekistan and also intends to change this situation.