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Addressing the annual gathering of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers in Ljubljana on 6 December, Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev disputed the organization\'s critical stance on Kazakhstan\'s 4 December presidential election. Toqaev expressed his \"decisive disagreement with the negative assessments of the political process in our country by the [OSCE\'s] Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [ODIHR].\" \"Kazakhstan is not prepared to dramatize the ODIHR assessments, but they are, in essence, biased.

By empty (12/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Darigha Nazarbaeva, the daughter of Kazakh President Nazarbaev, told a briefing in Astana on 6 December that she does not rule out a possible presidential run in 2012. She told journalists, \"In a year or two we\'ll examine this issue.\" On the question of success, Nazarbaeva said that her father would have \"the final say\" on choosing a successor.

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President Kurmanbek Bakiev issued a resolution on 30 November formally rebuking Zamira Sydykova, Kyrgyzstan\'s ambassador to the United States, for statements she made about the U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan.