8 Apr in 12:20
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mikhtar Tileuberdi in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan.
At the onset of the meeting, Minister Tileuberdi praised Kazakh-Russian bilateral relations which, according to him, develop gradually in all areas in the spirit of strategic partnership and alliance.
The nations enjoy intensive political dialogue as well as deep economic ties and promote the process of economic integration. Kazakhstan and Russia, according to him, also develop bilateral cooperation in military and technical, cultural and humanitarian, and other spheres.
The head of the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs also emphasized that Kazakhstan is ready to continue practical implementation of all agreements reached at the top level. Sergey Lavrov, in turn, thanked the Kazakh side for hospitality and warm welcome.
Has Kazakhstan Failed Xinjiang’s Ethnic Kazakhs?
The Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Kazakhstan. (Ninara, https://flic.kr/p/dFScYU; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
China’s brutal repression campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, labeled a genocide by the United States, has also implicated the region’s nearly 1.6 million ethnic Kazakhs. Kazakhstan, which shares a long border with Xinjiang, was an epicenter of activism in the early months and years of the crackdown many of the first victims who testified on the world stage were ethnic Kazakhs who had witnessed the camps and fled to Kazakhstan. This left Kazakhstan’s government, led by authoritarian strongmen but weak in comparison to China’s Xi Jinping, walking a fine line: heeding its compatriots’ calls to support Kazakhs and fellow Turkic Muslims in China without risking China’s immense economic investments in Kazakhstan. But this economic dependence, now at its strongest point in history th
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