Last week the European Parliament adopted their resolution on Kazakhstan which condemns the authorities of the country.<\/p>\n
Tatjana Zhanoka, our MEP, took a stance against it. She reasoned her refusal to support the resolution in her statement at the plenary meeting:<\/p>\n
“It will take a lot of time and efforts investigate deeply the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
But our Parliament, nevertheless, has once more assumed the role of judge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Just several questions in connection to proposed Resolution.<\/p>\n When urging Kazakhstani authorities \u201cto refrain from applying charges of \u201cterrorism\u201d<\/strong> too broadly\u201d<\/em> is our Parliament not applying too broadly<\/strong> such definitions as \u201cactivists\u201d <\/em><\/strong>and \u201creligious organisations\u201d<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n Do we \u201dproperly distinguish\u201d<\/em><\/strong> ourselves between \u201dpeaceful protesters\u201d<\/strong><\/em> and those who \u201dused violence and committed crimes\u201d<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n Why when saying that a number of \u201cinternational journalists and offices came under attack by the state forces\u201d<\/strong><\/em> we turn a blind eye to the facts<\/strong> of burning down of the buildings of major Kazakh TV channels and international channel \u201cMir\u201d by armed groups of well-trained men<\/strong>?<\/p>\n Are we not selective<\/strong> when mentioning the names of several political prisoners<\/strong> but forgetting others, no less famous?<\/p>\n As a member of the Central Asia region PCC and former vice-chair of it, I\u2019m for respectful dialogue with Kazakhstan avoiding double standards.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week the European Parliament adopted their resolution on Kazakhstan which condemns the authorities of the country. Tatjana Zhanoka, our MEP, took a stance against it. She reasoned her refusal to support the resolution in her statement at the plenary meeting: “It will take a lot of time and efforts investigate deeply the January 2022 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-our-mer","tag-tatjana-zdanoka","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}