Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov (C) poses with Kyrgyzstan's President Askar Akayev (L) and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev while wearing presented wheat wreaths in Akmola region, near the town of Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan, August 27, 1993. Picture taken August 27, 1993. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo