Leading opposition figures in Kazakhstan have urged Tony Blair to press for democratic reform in the oil-rich central Asian country or abandon his new role as adviser to the government.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the authoritarian president of Kazakhstan, last month recruited the former UK prime minister to advise on economic reforms and presenting a better face to the west. The two men are understood to have developed close ties after a meeting in 2001.
Officials in Astana, the capital, said Mr Blair could provide “priceless” advice and endorse oil-rich Kazakhstan’s success as central Asia’s most prosperous and stable country.
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