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"Mr President, Mr Søvndal, Commissioner, as they say in a well-known film: ‘nobody’s perfect’; and we in the European Union do, of course, face dilemmas and problems with countries where things happen which we should criticise, and which we do criticise, things which conflict with certain of the values and principles we adhere to in the Western world – in the European Union or the United States – and this, of course, applies today to Kazakhstan, too. Kazakhstan is a country with which, on the one hand, we want to cooperate – many of the EU’s Member States want to cooperate with Kazakhstan and buy its natural resources. Kazakhstan is declaring an openness to working with the EU’s Member States and the Western world, and the President – who holds a great deal of power in Kazakhstan – is promising political changes. On the other hand, we see that things are not moving as quickly as we would like, things are moving with difficulty, and there are examples and situations which we see as fairly clear violations of human rights. So I think that in this situation today, we ought to say to the President of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh authorities that we are still open to working together but, at the same time, we are going to be very scrupulously monitoring cases which we consider to be violations of human rights, and we must tell the President of Kazakhstan that there can be no consent to persecution of the opposition, and that we do not agree to the repression of journalists and the silencing of free media."@en1
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