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Uzbek President Stresses Importance of Peace
Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- Islam Karimov, Uzbek president, addressing an event marking the 66th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, emphasized the importance of peace.

He said that about 500,000 Uzbeks or 30 percent of its population lost their lives during the hard-fought war, adding that this showed at what high price the victory in the war was won.

Saying that the situations in some countries such as Afghanistan show the importance of the country's peace and national unity, he noted that it is necessary for inbahitants to always value the goodwill and concord.

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