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The Washington Post, 31.03.2011, Kazakhstan’s steady progress toward democracy


The unrest that has gripped North Africa and the Middle East has been driven by a potent mixture of economics and politics. Citizens have taken to the streets to protest falling living standards, a lack of political power and an absence of opportunities. In Kazakhstan, we know about the challenge of providing opportunities. Twenty years ago, when our country began its journey as an independent nation, most outside our borders dismissed us as a remote former Soviet republic. Our economy lay in ruins, and we had little capacity to provide basic services.

The situation today is very different. The Kazakh people’s hard work and unity have led to a stable, multicultural nation with a strong economy and rapidly improving living standards and public services. Increasingly, Kazakhstan is becoming an important bridge between East and West. Civil society is growing, and we are progressing steadily on the path of democratic reform.

A strong economy is essential for any country to fulfill its ambitions. Few nations can match our economic performance since independence; our gross domestic product per capita has risen more than twelvefold and exceeds $9,000. In 1991, our industries were under state control and we had no entrepreneurial class. Today, the private sector is the backbone of our economy, and there are more than 700,000 small and medium-size businesses.

This growing wealth has translated into more jobs, increased wages and investment in public services. In the past decade alone, average monthly wages have grown more than fivefold. Unemployment is down by half and is lower than the rates in the United States, Britain, France and Germany.

We have been fortunate that our country is rich in natural resources. We are the world’s largest uranium miner and home to the biggest oil discovery in the past 40 years. We know, however, that our most important resource is our people and that government must invest directly to improve citizens’ lives and opportunities. Health spending has increased 10 times in the past decade. Higher pensions and more jobs have reduced the number of Kazakhs living in poverty.

Our literacy rate is close to 100 percent. We are investing heavily in learning, with new schools and universities, as well as scholarships for 3,000 of our brightest young people to study abroad.

We are proud, too, of being a tolerant society where people of all backgrounds and religions are treated equally. We take the same approach to peoples outside our borders and have good relations with Russia, the United States, Europe, China and beyond.

Our country is, I believe, seen as a voice for moderation and peace, reinforced by our decision to give up the nuclear arsenal we inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We were elected to chair the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2010 and hosted the first OSCE Summit in 11 years in Astana. We are determined to play a unifying role between the West and the Islamic world through our chairmanship of the Organization of the Islamic Conference this year.

Our focus on economic strength and increased prosperity for our citizens is well justified and easily explained. Without such strength, as we have seen repeatedly around the world, stability is put at risk and democratic reform can founder.

According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan is an upper-middle-income country. By creating a strong middle class and raising incomes, we have given our citizens a powerful stake in their society. We need to strengthen democratic social and political institutions and processes to give them a bigger say over their future. Accountability and an increased focus on individual rights will go hand in hand with economic success.

We are determined to pick up the pace of reform. Next year’s elections will deliver a multiparty parliament, which is enshrined in law. On Sunday, voters will go to the polls to decide the outcome of the presidential elections. We will do everything to ensure these elections will be free and fair, and we have invited foreign observers to monitor the process.

We are also strengthening the judiciary’s independence, as well as reviewing laws and reforming enforcement agencies to better protect human rights. We are listening to our growing civil society about speeding up change in the culture on rights and freedom. We will, for example, make defamation a civil rather than a criminal offense to encourage free speech and bring us into line with international best practices.

It took the great democracies of the world centuries to develop. We are not going to become a fully developed democracy overnight. But we have proved that we can deliver on our big ambitions. Our road to democracy is irreversible, and we intend to provide economic and political opportunities for our citizens.

The writer is president of Kazakhstan.

By Nursultan Nazarbayev

Al-Rai Newspaper (Иордания), 01.04.2011 About «the Marathon» in Kazakhstan


Marwan Sudah – Astana

The Kazakh capital thriving with all standards. Its oriental features dominate the western, in spite of modernity and modernization it is full and stepped into the global. I did not imagine that this former Soviet state, submerged in the former regime, can receive during a short period of time all of this astronomical progress, and reach the spaces of stunning prosperity in various aspects. The first impression for the visitor that will governs his subsequent actions to his hosts, it is also that either pull him or drive away, Kazakhstan the Islamic, Asian, Eastern, open, modern and pluralism incubator, pull me strongly to its forearm, although this is my first visit to it, as if I know it since ever , as if I lived there, grew up, and not in the Arctic Leningrad.

The selection was on the writer of these lines and the Jordanian citizen media Eilena Nedogina, to be international observers on the extraordinary presidential elections that will begin Sunday, and to read lectures in its universities about our prospective newspaper «Al-Rai ». Everyone here is looking forward to what will end this « leadership Marathon » which the founder president, and the first president Nursultan Nazarbayev wanted before the specified date that is determined constitutionally, and he is the one to refuse the demands of the people and parliament to the extension of his mandate, as a pressing from him to open the way in front of others who wish to gain access to the throne Chair. According to independent experts here, Nazarbayev's decision to make the election is a practical, logical procedure and a process to ensure political stability in the country and the region as a whole. On the other hand, the reactions of the political elites in most western capitals are positive.

The foreign observers in Astana who are representing various international, continental and regional organizations are speaking about the long-term development foundations and the stability of Kazakhstan that is associated exclusively on behalf of Nazarbayev, who saved since 1990 Kazakhstan diametrically from certain death, nationalism (the number of 140nationalities) religious , sectarian, regional contradictions and confrontations with foreign powers, and neutralized the reactionaries and the remnants of organizations that employed brutally the religion in conspiracy activities, and dry its headwaters, therefore established the solid non-variable rules for a neutral state, sovereign and independent, so he gained the immersive popularity among the masses, and turned this multi-ethnic State and nationalisms strong arm for peace, and stable island with relatively prosperous, in an area «famous» with its political, social and economic complex development, and during the first twenty years of Kazakhstan independence the per capita GDP grew to more than 12 times, exceeding the barrier of $ 9000, as a direct result of the reforms, the »new social policy», and economic modernization, which its essence is the mandatory activation of industrial development programs, coupled with activist innovation tendencies, which thrive in an environment of social peace and harmony, to the fact that this environment prerequisite for sustainable development, based on community awareness and depth of national understanding of the duty of the Joint and actual defense of the nation’s fate .

Here they are speaking as well as about the Kazakh critical balance of interests approach with neighbors Russia and China, and.. the West, and about Astana providing specific assistance to international efforts to resolve the situation in Afghanistan, resolving of the long-standing conflict and disputes in the Nagorno-Karabakh, Bridenstrovia, South Ossetia, and its contributions in the expanding of the Western- Islamic dialogue and the stability of Nazarbayev on the path of Eurasian integration, its maximum convergence with the euro area, the commitment to the regulations of the United Nations, and success by creating a broad and comprehensive security system, the rejection of nuclear weapons, as Soviet Kazakhstan ranked the fourth in the size of its nuclear arsenal in the world, surpassing the arsenals of China France and Britain combined!!!, and all of this reinforced the atmosphere of the regional and global stability, so the Kazakh became a reliable political partner globally, which led to the attribution of the Presidency of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to them in June.