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Federal Councellor assures that Switzerland will continue to follow the general human rights situation in Kazakhstan as well as the case of Mr. Akezhan Kazhegeldin
Berne, 2. July 1999  

Kazakhstan: U.S. Congressman Sees Little Democratization Progress
A leading U.S. congressman says recent developments in Kazakhstan have disappointed many Americans who hoped that authoritarianism was not inevitable for Central Asia.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 7 May 1999

CSCE news release
Commissioners Voice Concern Over Condition of Democracy in Kazakstan
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe,May 6

Report
on Kazakstan's Presidential Election, January 10, 1999

Recieved via E-mail, 9 May 1999

Akezhan Kazhegeldin Chairman National Republican Party of Kazakhstan
Testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress

May 6, 199

TESTIMONY Before the U.S. CONGRESS’S COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE
On THE CHALLENGE OF BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN KAZAKHSTAN By DR. MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT, Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Professor of Political Science Colgate University

Democracy and U.S. Relations with Kazakhstan
Principal Deputy Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States Ross L. Wilson

On the political and economic situation in Kazakhstan after the presidential election and before  the parlamentary elections
Testimony by Peter Svoik, Co-Chair, “Azamat,” at Hearings Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helskinki Commission)

Evgeni Zhovtis,Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau For Human Rights And Justice, the United States And European Union International Prize Winner For Commitment To The Development Of Democracy And Civil Society
Testimony At The Hearings Of The Us Congressional Commission On Security And Cooperation In Europe (The Helsinki Commission)

Recieved via E-mail, May 6, 1999

Commissioners Voice Concern Over Condition of Democracy in Kazakstan
Hearing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on the The State of Democratization and Human Rights in Kazakhstan took place in Washington, DC

CSCE NEWS RELEASE, May 6, 1999

Hearing on The State of Democratization and Human Rights in Kazakstan Announced
CSCE News release

Recieved via E-mail, 4 May 1999

Crisis of financial and banking sphere of Kazakhstan
The state of Kazakh financial system as of March, 1999 is characterized as unsteady balancing on the verge of collapse. A number of indexes is analyzed.

March 1999

Covering   note
To the Republic of Kazakhstan Bill on Inclusion of Changes and Additions to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan On the Election in the Kazakhstan Republic, Enforced as the Constitutional Law, of September 28, 1995.
Legal and political reasons requiring the the adoption of the law are considered.

EU exacts democratic elections in Kazakhstan
The German embassy, in charge of the EU Almaty board, informs of the 17 December statement by the Austrian EU representatives at the OSCE permanent council in relation to early 10 January elections in Kazakhstan.

Panorama, 25 December 1998

Congress of the United States
Appeal to the President

Statement by US Department of State, Office of Spokesman, James Rubin
Kazakhstan: Supreme Court Confirms former PM Kazhegeldin disqualified from running

Human rights: practice and prospects
An executive order sets up under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan a human rights commission with embracing powers to monitor compliance with human rights and freedoms in the land.

An Address by the IVth Congress of the Republican Political Party of Labor to President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishevich
On a Decision by Party Members to Endorse the Candidacy of the Incumbent President in the Upcoming Elections

Statement of For Fair Election activists

19 November 1998

Decision of the Medeu (Almaty) district court
in relation to citizen Akezhan Kazhegeldin

18 November, 1998

Statement of the Kazakhstan Russian Community
Social survey performed by the Russian Community in Kazakhstan regarding the latest events connected with amendments to the Republic of Kazakhstan Constitution and with early election of the President of the Republic, evidence on diverse opinion of citizens to these events.

Russian Community in Kazakhstan, October 23, 1998

Royal Prosecutor in Brussels Refutes Insinuations of Kazakhstan National Security Regarding Akezhan Kazhegeldin
On October 22, 1998, Mr. Kazhegeldin’s lawyer Roger Lallemand sent a request letter to the Royal Prosecutor in Brussels.

October 22, 1998

Akezhan Kazhegeldin is Sentenced by Court,

20 October 1998, Almaty

Sertificate
Disproving false accusations published in

Novoye Pokolenie,  16 October 1998

Kazakhstan National Security Insists That Kazhegeldin Is Under Investigation
The press service of Kazakhstan National Security confirmed the information released earlier that Belgian police is conducting an investigation on the facts of “corruption violations” on the part of the former prime-minister, a presidential candidate Akezhan Kazhegeldin.

10 October