Summary
Addressing those who criticize the slow pace of democratization in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev offered these words of reassurance: "We have not given up on reform" ("Progress in Kazakhstan," Op-Ed, Thursday). More convincing would be for the government to release from prison opposition leader Galymzhan Zhakianov; to register his party, the Democratic Movement of Kazakhstan; and to cease the harassment and intimidation of opposition supporters. This would go some distance in improving Kazakhstan's dismal record on electoral freedoms and toward giving the Kazakh people genuine choice in upcoming parliamentary elections.
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