Tony Blair is a senior aide to the President of Kazakhstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev. His consultancy team has been engaged to improve the reputation and business links of the oil and gas-rich country. News of civil unrest is summarised here.
Fifty opposition leaders – including young politicians, youth workers and journalists – wrote an open letter published in the opposition newspaper Respublika, calling for the former British premier to resign as advisor to their president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Excerpts quoted in the press include:
‘It is known that you were an adviser to the bloody dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
‘The whole world saw with its own eyes that he used weapons against civilians in his country, trying hard to suppress the riots. The bloody scenario of Libya was repeated in Kazakhstan.
‘The leadership of Kazakhstan in peacetime opened fire and shot at unarmed citizens. Such bloody methods are being used in our country since you became an adviser to President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
‘You are an adviser to Kazakhstan’s leadership. Why within the last seven months were authorities deaf to the demands of oil workers? And finally, they shot at its citizens?’
‘We once again urge you to resign from the position of presidential adviser and to stop co-operating with the criminal regime.’ #
To avoid further embarrassment to people in Britain, Mr Blair, please retire into a decent obscurity.
