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Deputy Foreign Minister Rakhat Aliev, who is also President Nazarbaev\'s son-in-law, told a meeting of a state democratization commission in Astana on August 28 that Britain and the United States have reservations about Kazakhstan\'s bid to chair the OSCE in 2009, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. \"Certain countries, among which the United States and Great Britain stand out, while generally welcoming Kazakhstan\'s initiative [to chair the OSCE], at the same time view critically the prospects for its chairmanship in 2009,\" Aliev said. The OSCE is expected to make a decision on Kazakhstan\'s bid by the end of 2006.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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