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"Mr President, Kazakhstan is a main partner of the European Union in the region of Central Asia. In June 2011, negotiations started with it on a new Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. The country obviously has a long way to go until it achieves European standards of political pluralism, freedom of speech and assembly. However, Kazakhstan is still making efforts to gain recognition as a secular, constitutional and modern state.
This is a long-term process which the European Union must support. This is why I call on the Commission to develop a more strategic approach to human rights dialogue in Kazakhstan, to provide more active support to civil society representatives in the region, and to establish a properly functioning mechanism for coordinating the European Union’s efforts as part of a structured dialogue on human rights and a bilateral dialogue between Member States and the republics of Central Asia, thereby also avoiding the political disagreements within the EU.
I firmly believe that this will also have a much more positive impact on the development of democracy in Kazakhstan than if it were left under the sphere of influence of Moscow or Beijing."@en1
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