After assisting Uzbekistan in the Andijon massacre we were kicked out of the country for complaining to loudly about what we'd helped accomplish. But today we're back in the game. Sort of:
US Admiral William Fallon visited the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, in January for talks with President Islam Karimov, in a sign of warming relations between the two countries.
Since President Karimov was re-elected last year, the EU and the US have seemed more willing to restore their relationship with Uzbekistan, says the BBC's Central Asia correspondent Natalia Antelava.