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The 14th meeting between the State Great Khural of Mongolia and the European Parliament was held on February 23.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs B.Munkhjin held a meeting with parliamentarians led by Andris Ameriks, Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Central Asia and Mongolia, European Parliament.

EU Reporter Elections are taking place today, 10 th January 2021, in Kazakhstan to the Mazhilis, the lower house of parliament, as well as the Maslikhats, local representative bodies. 98 members of parliament are selected from nationwide party lists that pass the 7% threshold, while the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, a constitutional body representing the country’s various ethnic communities, elects nine. 312 candidates are standing from across five parties. Reflecting the diversity of Kazakh society, the candidates include 90 women (29%), 19 people under the age of 29, and represent...

EU Reporter (pictured) has spared convicts sentenced to death in the authoritarian central Asian nation. The former Soviet state has ratified a UN treaty against capital punishment. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree abolishing the death penalty in Kazakhstan, according to a statement released by his office on Saturday. The new law makes permanent the existing moratorium on state executions in place since 2003, introduced In September 2020, Tokayev spoke before the UN General Assembly saying that the decision was driven "to fulfill a fundamental right to life and human di...

EU Reporter Published 3 months ago The first elections in the world in 2021 take place in Kazakhstan in a few days – and much is expected from them. The elections are for the Majilis, the lower chamber of the Kazakh Parliament consisting of 107 deputies who are elected for a five-year term (the upper house is the Senate of Kazakhstan, with 47 members). The previous elections for the 107-seat Majilis were held in March 2016 and, currently, the Nur Otan party has a majority of 84 deputies in the Majilis, while the Ak Zhol and the Communist People’s party have 7 deputies each. In a departu...