President Rouhani condoles with Uzbek people on death of counterpart

President Rouhani sympathized with the Uzbek people and President Karimov’s family.

President Karimov died at the age of 78 after suffering a stroke.

His rule saw the country emerge from the collapsing Soviet Union to become an independent nation.

Karimov was born in 1938 in Samarkand, one of Central Asia's oldest inhabited cities and a key stopping point along the Silk Road.

He studied engineering and economics at university.

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