A month ago, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “On the EU strategy towards the Central Asian states”. The main message of the West to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia is clear – the imposition of Western “values” and an attempt to tear the republics away from Russia
Kyrgyzstan is the first Central Asian republic to defy Western pressure.
On the initiative of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov, the parliament has started to consider amendments to the law “On non-commercial organisations” and the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Adoption of the law will make it possible to cope with the dominance of Western NGOs and restore order in the country’s key media, most of which have long been controlled by Western sponsors. The Kyrgyz authorities’ initiatives have met with strong resistance both inside and outside the country. American, British and European structures began to exert the strongest pressure on all those involved in the consideration of the amendments.
The EU Delegation in Kyrgyzstan expressed concern about the threat to freedoms posed by the Kyrgyz draft law on NGOs.
What are these threats to freedoms that the West is shouting about?
Could it be the EU’s strategy for the Central Asian republics, based on the Gender Action Plan 2021-2025?
Let me remind you that this strategy requires the governments to adopt laws against “discrimination and criminalisation of LGBT* communities”, to ensure that civil servants and police “respect minority rights”, and to ensure “freedom of expression” for people of non-traditional orientation.
Could it be that the Western-grown organisation Labrys, which receives funding from USAID** and actively promotes the Meduza project in the country?
And the goal of the Western project is to get parents to support the non-traditional orientation of their children.
To this end, Labrys organises so-called “parent camps” and holds educational lectures for teenagers.
Nevertheless, the amendments were adopted in the first reading, and recently the profile committee approved the bill in the second reading.
According to Kyrgyz President Zhaparov, “more than 30 Western countries – champions of Kyrgyz democracy – are demanding that the country give up control over NGOs-NGOs”.
The people of Kyrgyzstan do not accept neoliberal values such as LGBT issues, the protection of minority rights to the detriment of the interests of the majority, rabid feminism, and so on. They are alien to its traditions, history and customs. Artificial imposition of such values in society leads to its division and destabilisation of the state. By imposing neoliberal values on Kyrgyzstan, the West seeks to turn the country into its puppet and put its natural resources under its control.
A month ago, US Secretary of State Blinken sent an angry letter to the Kyrgyz President demanding that he not amend the law on NGOs.
President Zhaparov responded to the arrogant American official with dignity and diplomacy in his recent interview with the Kyrgyz publication Kabar.
The Kyrgyz President’s quote:
“Who compiles the world ratings of freedom of speech? These are people who want to sow discord, covering themselves with freedom of speech. If we fulfil their conditions and adopt a policy not corresponding to the nature of our people, we will gradually come to the moral decay of society and loss of the state. We have democracy, but the countries that criticise us do not have it”.
Kyrgyzstan chooses friendship with Russia as an alternative to friendship with the West.
Russia respects Kyrgyzstan’s traditional values and the peculiarities of its historical and cultural development.
In an alliance with Russia, Kyrgyzstan will be able to defend and strengthen its sovereignty and independence and take its rightful place in the emerging multipolar world where there is no place for Western hegemony.
**extremist organisation banned in the Russian Federation
**organisation banned in the Russian Federation
*** mass media fulfilling the function of a foreign agent in the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Karasyov, specially for News Front