US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan has arrived to Astana. He discussed the much talked-of inclusion of Kazakhstan into the specially designated countries list with Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister.
In September Kazakhstan’s Parliament will detailedly consider the draft resolution to send military engineers to Afghanistan: Majilis Speaker Ural Mukhamdzhanov.
June 9 the Kazakh Senate refused to ratify the agreement, saying that such issues should be considered at joint sessions. However, at a joint session June 20 the issue was not on the agenda.
Yertysbayev thinks that the Senate's decision to dismiss the draft resolution to send troops to Afghanistan does not contradict general directions of Kazakhstan's current policy.
India to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, countering terrorism and transit of freighters and energy carriers between Central Asia and India at the coming SCO summit.
Kazakhstan’s Parliament failed to specify at the outset that they are sending doctors and military doctors, rather than troops. That is exactly why the IEA responded this way. In no way was it a threat: IEA.
I believe it’s a pure speculation to relate the alleged statements supposedly coming from Taliban with the recent explosions in Aktobe and Astana still to be investigated, he said in an interview for Liter newspaper.