Unvalued contribution to foreign policy
Kazakhstan, Politics and Society5 Comments
Translation of Marat’s post from Russian-language blog.
Everybody knows that president Nursultan Nazarbayev personally determines the nation’s foreign policy. Thus, he is the first in a queue to be awarded for successes. But who should be the second one? Longtime foreign minister Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev? Or, say, current foreign minister Marat Tazhin? Or somebody from the prime-ministers or chiefs of presidential administration?
But, in actual fact, the second should be a foreign citizen, who contributed a lot to the success of Kazakhstan.
It is Islam Karimov, the preisdent of Uzbekistan. His policies brought Uzbekistan to the desperate poverty and decreased regional competition in favor of Kazakhstan. However, in the 1990s many people thought that Uzbekistan will become a regional locomotive:
But, it never happened this way. So, the kazakhs owe a monument to Karimov in Astana.
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Those people might just have been wrong about Uzbekistan, as well.
I agree there is a culture of giving the big N far more credit than he deserves, but I’m not sure that the leftovers should go to Karimov.
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