Kazakhstan

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for the creation of a platform for Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security cooperation during the anniversary meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) inter-governmental forum. Nazarbayev reportedly would like to increase security cooperation between the UN, OSCE, NATO, CSTO, SCO, EU and CIS. While we do not expect this idea to come to fruition, we see it as little surprise that this announcement comes only a short time after Uzbekistan withdrew from the CSTO back in June given that Uzbekistan is a key rival of Kazakhstan for regional hegemony on the Central Asian steppe

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