NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan welcomes the results of the 15th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana format, the Statement of the Ministry reads.
Activist Defending Ethnic Kazakhs In China Explains Why He Had To Flee Kazakhstan
January 18, 2021 20:05 GMT
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Tens of thousands of ethnic Kazakhs in China s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been sent to reeducation camps along with hundreds of thousands of others from that western province after being rounded up by China because they are Muslims.
Serikzhan Bilash is one of the people who helped bring this great injustice to light by exposing the suffering of ethnic Kazakhs at the camps in Xinjiang.
An ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang who moved to neighboring Kazakhstan in 2000, Bilash received Kazakh citizenship in 2011 under the oralman program, which was designed in 1991 to entice ethnic Kazakhs abroad to resettle in sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan.
January 13, 2021
Kazakhstan has scaled up its rhetoric on protecting the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, most probably against Russian and Chinese expansionist threats.
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has written in a state-run newspaper that “nobody from outside gave Kazakhs this large territory as a gift”.
Written under the headline ‘Independence A Most Precious Thing’ on the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s independence and a few days before the parliamentary elections, the article was a jibe at Russia and China. Both claim Kazakhstan was part of their territories in the past and that it should be integrated with them again.
601 Background: Russia made progress last year shoring up its southern and western border areas, by placing peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh and siding with Belarus’ embattled president, respectively. Moscow, however, has paid less attention to its buffer farther east. This could be changing. What Happened: A Russian lawmaker said on state TV last month that Kazakhstan owed […]
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