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Kazakhstan\'s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement disputing recent claims by Vyacheslav Kasymov, director of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\'s (SCO) Regional Antiterrorism Structure, that Kazakhstan harbors terrorist organizations. In a 7 February interview with \"Nezavisimaya gazeta,\" Kasymov said that in Kazakhstan \"there are even lands bought up by firms that belong to the \'bin Ladens.\'\" Noting that Kazakhstan is a party to the 12 UN antiterrorism conventions, the statement dubbed Kasymov\'s claims \"inappropriate.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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