Word: akayev
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...conflict in some of the republics may be resolved only when stable, popularly supported governments take shape. So far, the political scorecard is mixed. Kyrgyzstan's Akayev and Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev have won praise in the West for their eagerness to open up to the outside world. They have tried to forge a policy of "public consensus" in their ethnically diverse states, presiding over what can best be described as "nonparty" systems made up of shifting groups of democrats, nationalists, environmentalists and Old Guard communists. Akayev says his major aim is to create "a strong and powerful middle class that...
With so many suitors, the newly independent states have been wary of making geopolitical commitments. Askar Akayev, President of Kyrgyzstan, wants his country to be "politically like Switzerland, but in the heart of Asia." Foreign Minister Abdu Kuliyev believes Turkmenistan should be "neither Islamic nor Soviet but a secular, democratic state." President Nursultan * Nazarbayev thinks Kazakhstan, which stretches from the Volga region of Russia to the western borders of China, should be a bridge between Europe and Asia. Says he: "We want to enter the democratic world like any other state...