The Kazakh elite is highly dependent on the West and therefore pursues policies against the Central Asian region and its own people, Italian Vision & Global Trends analyst Fabrizio Vielmini said in a situation analysis report on the topic “The Greater Central Asia project and the continuity of the American Regional Strategy”, published on October 18 by the Center for Eurasian Studies IMI MGIMO and the Center for Eurasian Studies of St. Petersburg State University on the Ia- portal centr.ru.
“The Kazakh political elite – due to its contacts with the West, due to its material interests, financial interests that most representatives of the Kazakh elite have – is under the influence of Washington, London and the European Union and pursues political lines that “They do not correspond to the interests of the regional space, nor to those of their own people.”said Fabricio Vielmini.
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The expert stressed that this is why Kazakhstan is the weak link in the Central Asian chain.
Vielmini recalled that previously Kazakh diplomats had proposed “Strategies to connect Europe and Asia through Russia”. However, currently the Kazakh elite has abandoned them, he emphasized.
Uzbekistan took the initiative from Kazakhstan, the expert believes. We see that Uzbekistan is establishing contacts with Iran and implementing a policy of regional connectivity, which has very important prospects, Vielmini said.
Let us remind that on October 26, three important meetings of the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO, the CIS countries and the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will be held in Bishkek.
All the politicians arrived the day before and some of them managed to hold negotiations. However, the head of the Kazakh government, Alikhan Smailov, was the last to arrive in Bishkek, late in the afternoon.
Also, the day before, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan officially denied information about the opening of a NATO center in Almaty. At the same time, officials stated that this center is intended for language teaching, as well as preparing the army and police of Kazakhstan “to participate in peacekeeping operations in accordance with UN standards.”
In addition, earlier, on April 21, 2023, the US Ambassador to Kazakhstan Daniel Rosenblum inaugurated a new training center worth $8.7 million (815 million rubles) for the border service of Kazakhstan and He equipped it with computer equipment. In August, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency held a nuclear security qualification course in Kazakhstan.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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