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"en.20110117.19.1-212-000"2
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"Mr President, in December, Commission President Barroso told me by letter that his meeting with President Nazarbayev last October would help advance respect for human rights in Kazakhstan. The same was said about granting Kazakhstan the chair of the OSCE in 2010 and holding a major OSCE summit in Astana in December. However, world leaders had scarcely left that summit when it was announced that a referendum was to be held in March to cancel the presidential election in 2012, thus keeping Nazarbayev in power until 2020.
Harassment of the opposition press and of human rights defenders is being stepped up. Activists from the left-wing movement ‘Kazakhstan 2012’ are being harassed and jailed.
I demand that the EU stop boosting the Nazarbayev dictatorship. The independent trade union and social movements in Kazakhstan must be fully supported so that they can lead mobilisation to end this dictatorship – just as people power in Tunisia ended the Ben Ali dictatorship – and put in place structures to bring the wealth of Kazakhstan into the democratic ownership of the majority."@en1
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