Central Asia Digest | June 2019
Political Development Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was elected as President of Kazakhstan on 9th June, 2019 receiving 71% of votes polled. His nearest rival Amirzhan Kosanov of United National Patriotic Movement (‘Ult Tagdyry’) received 16% of votes. Tokayev succeeded Nursultan Nazarbayev, who announced his resignation in March after 30 years in power. Police arrested nearly 4,000 people […]
Central Asia Digest | May 2019
Political Developments During his visit to Uzbekistan, the German President held discussions with his counterpart and commended political, economic, and social change and reforms introduced by Uzbek President. The two sides discussed issues of further expanding political, trade, economic, investment, financial, technical, cultural, humanitarian relations, combating terrorism and extremism, building up security and international and […]
Central Asia Digest | April 2019
Political Developments Kazakh ruling Nur Otan party unanimously nominated interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as its candidate for upcoming June 9 snap Presidential elections. Decision was made under leadership of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Tokayev will hence be the next president. At previous elections, other parties won only single-digit percentages of the vote. Nazarbayev described Tokayev […]
Central Asia Digest | March 2019
Political Developments Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev dropped a geo-political bombshell on 19th March when he announced his resignation from position of President of country after having led it for about 30 years. In his televised Address he said that “concerns of the country and the people will remain my concerns” and that as founder of […]
Central Asia Digest | February 2019
I Overview China: India – China begin disengaging in one sector of Ladakh China publicly admits that 4 soldiers including an officer of the PLA died at Galwan on 15 June 2020 Biden has telephone conversation with Xi but meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers also takes place China prepares for its annual Parliament meeting or […]