Members of the European Parliament welcome the new democratic reforms in Kazakhstan

BRUSSELS, January 20, 2020 — Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi met with the Vice-President of the European Commission, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and a group of members of the European Parliament, including the members of the Kazakhstan-EU Friendship Group and the European Parliament Delegation for Central Asia and Mongolia.

Members of the European Parliament praised the potential of new democratic reforms initiated by President Tokayev. They also welcomed the decision of the President to join the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty in Kazakhstan, as well as the initiatives to prepare draft bills on peaceful assemblies, decriminalization of slander, lowering the threshold for the establishment of political parties, and other reforms.