Kazakhstan to Britain: Don't lecture us on human rights
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Monday nobody had the right to lecture his country after British Prime Minister David Cameron raised concerns about human rights in the former Soviet state.
In Kazakhstan on a brief visit which saw 700 million pounds of business deals, Cameron, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with Nazarbayev, said he had discussed "at length" allegations about government repression.
Nazarbayev was stony faced, underscoring the political risks of Cameron's strategy of broadening Britain's trade links to include emerging economies, such as Kazakhstan which sits on a wealth of oil reserves.
Cameron says Britain needs to diversify such links at a time when its economy is in the doldrums. But activists have accused him of putting trade before human rights, while the countries he is trying to court bridle at criticism of their rights records.
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