Comments on: Event Summary: FM Tokaev Visits Washington

By: tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Event Summary: Congressional Briefing on Tajikistan Elections

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:42:29 +0000

[…] The Ambassador As I noted in another event summary, presentations by diplomats are — with some notable exceptions — notoriously dull, and Zaripov was no exception. This is not to demean Zaripov in the slightest — he was just doing his job, repeating the government line (”Tajikistan’s made a lot of progress, especially given the civil war, yada yada”). To his credit, he was a good sport and engaged when McGlinchey painted a much different picture of the future prospects of Tajikistan (read on). […]

By: kazakhstan.neweurasia.net » Overview of Kazakhstan Blogosphere

kazakhstan.neweurasia.net » Overview of Kazakhstan Blogosphere — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:39:06 +0000

[…] Returning to the SCO, James reports on the Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokaev’s speech in a W.P. Carey Forum for the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Tokaev denied the media claims of SCO being an anti-Western block, and defined it as a “unique organization with universal goals, and as especially useful for combating religious extremists because of its strong military component”, says James. Tokaev gave a usual “first economic, then political reforms” speech, which one diplomat called a “two words forward, one step back” development. […]

By: Nurzhan

Nurzhan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:27:57 +0000

Tokaev’s visit to pave the way for KZ president to pay a visit to the US and get some photo op-eds with Bush and show those photos to Kazakhstanies in order to legitimize his rule and economic and political achievements.

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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:22:40 +0000

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By: Leila

Leila — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:30:57 +0000

It is “order” in Russia, and “stability” in Kazakhstan, and people do think that the change of political system is going to put an end to that.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:42:29 +0000

‘… he later emphasized that economic reforms should come before political (democratic) reforms, and only with this basis could the political system began to change significantly …’

Clearly he has been paying attention to his Fareed Zakaria. However, it is a variation on the standard Central Asian-rebuttal to critiques on their political and economic reform e.g. ‘you in the West took hundreds of years to achieve free markets and liberal democracy, we have only been independent states for 15 years, how can you expect us to achieve these things so quickly ? etc etc.

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Global News Blog » Caucasus - Evangelicals threatened by mystifying change — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:48:11 +0000

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