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Kazakhstan takes helm of OSCE amid concern over rights

VIENNA-Kazakhstan took over the leadership of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Friday for the next year amid concern over its human rights record.
It is the first former Soviet state to chair the 56-nation trans-Atlantic security body, after making promises of democratic reforms.
"We have concerns about the situation of human rights, media and other areas ...throughout the region, including Kazakhstan," Janez Lenarcic, director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, said last month.While conceding that "no state is without problems," Lenarcic said at a meeting of ministers in Athens on December 2, "clearly there is a challenge for the incoming chairmanship whether they will be able to lead by example"...
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