Tuesday, 06 December 2005

KAZAKH FOREIGN MINISTER DISPUTES OSCE ELECTION REPORT

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Addressing the annual gathering of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers in Ljubljana on 6 December, Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev disputed the organization\'s critical stance on Kazakhstan\'s 4 December presidential election. Toqaev expressed his \"decisive disagreement with the negative assessments of the political process in our country by the [OSCE\'s] Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [ODIHR].\" \"Kazakhstan is not prepared to dramatize the ODIHR assessments, but they are, in essence, biased.
Addressing the annual gathering of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers in Ljubljana on 6 December, Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev disputed the organization\'s critical stance on Kazakhstan\'s 4 December presidential election. Toqaev expressed his \"decisive disagreement with the negative assessments of the political process in our country by the [OSCE\'s] Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [ODIHR].\" \"Kazakhstan is not prepared to dramatize the ODIHR assessments, but they are, in essence, biased. For this reason, they have raised doubts in our country about ODIHR,\" he added. Toqaev blamed the OSCE\'s \"technical approach\" to election monitoring, arguing that it fails to take into account historical context. The OSCE\'s preliminary assessment of the election said that it \"did not meet a number of OSCE commitments and other international standards for democratic elections.\" (Interfax-Kazakhstan)
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