that the holding compa for kazakhstan's assets and development fu. ponied up cash to hope that the 37-year-d armstrong, who's currently in thirdplace, wins his eigh tour de francrs now, if u take a look at these jerseys,ou'll see kazakh ms corporation, which is e governmentwn mals and mining company. arastana the government owned airline is on the sleeves. and on the side of the jerseys that stands for the eurasian natural resources corporation. they also own kazmunaygas kazakhstan's gas coany, the railway,nd kazpos which is the national mail serve.a >> i have lot of questions. >> it's hard toigure out exactly howazakhstan is going ch in if armstrong finish with the yellow jery in a couple weeks. >> that was one of them. >> astana doesn't fly from fans ought capital city and if armstrong winds i'm pretty sure they'll be playing the a.m. anthem of the united states. at least it will be good for some publicity. you remember kazakhstan backed off their threat to sue sacha baron cohen for his portrayal of the country in "borat." it certainly made the nat

furthermore, kazakhstan will assume the chairmanship of the organization for security and cooperation in europe in 2010 and it is important that those responsible nations hold it accountable to the commitments that it has made to implement democratic reforms and to protect human rights. again i would like to express my support for this resolution although with some reservation and i ask my colleagues to do the same. thank you, madam speaker, and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from american samoa. mr. faleomavaega: madam speaker, i have no further speakers. ms. ros-lehtinen: madam speaker, i also have no further requests for time so i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. mr. faleomavaega: madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 535 as amended. th

they live on the chinese side, as well as the other side, kazakhstan of that border. they're a turkette people. they believe in islam. they're not chinese in the way that we think of ethnic chinese and that's where they've always lived. >> and what are their grievances? >> their grievances are essentially that their identity is not recognized by the chinese state. although the chinese state says that it recognizes ethnic minority autonomy, but actually what they've done is to kind of bury the local people, the uighurs and this influx of han chinese from the rest of china. and their strategy is to develop the region economically but uighurs are in the backwater of that development. they're ghettowise. they're not getting ahead economically. their religion is not respected. and so they feel that -- that they are not respected. >> ands violence the way that they think that they can gain that respect? >> well, i think that most of the uighurs are very moderate. their islam is moderate and their politics are moderate. but there has been a separatist movement. that wants an

ans armstrong and sponsorship we told you his current sponsor was essentially the government of kazakhstanlance's new deal makes a little bit more sense. radio shack will be the sponsor of a new cycling team headlined by armstrong. sources tell us it's a two-year deal negotiated by wasser medias group. it's in the range of $10 million a year. which is kind of what top teams get these days. who knows if armstrong will ride in 2010, but the deal cleverly covers armstrong's rights as a triathlete and a runner. he's of course run in the new york city marathon and expressed a desire to compete in the iron man. now, for radio shack the deal makes sense in that it actually has a product to sell, unlike lance's recent sponsor, the kazakh government and discovery channel. there's a challenge in this deal in that radio shack has very little presence outside the united states so it doesn't take advantage of armstrong's worldwide reach unless they use him to open up some doors. part of the value will be of course based on armstrong, who is 367 years old, and whether he can win again. armstrong might b

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live there wednesday it -- space capsule, known as the train, blasted off on the the cosmodrome in kazakhstan accelerating to 25,000 miles per hour the magical space known as the escape of velocity, sailed past the moon and pushed reverse or. becoming a tourist man-made objects revolve around the sun and the celestial bodies. the next issue of time magazine held at the feet as a turning point in the multibillion-dollar year history of the solar system. for one of the sun's plan it had at last a of a living creature that could break the chains of its gravitational field of flies of the lenox set off a year when chains all sorts were broken, with fervor and apprehension, not just in the cosmos of politics, society, culture, science and sex. if you and to call the breakdown of beers and space, speed and time and other barriers piper transgression. 1959 was a year when the shock waves of the new grip the scenes of daily life and humanity stepped into the cosmos and also, and dared the conception of human life. when the world shrank but then not need to expand exponentially. when outsiders became

announced that it's pulling its own application to join and would be reapplying to join along with kazakhstan as a joint trading block. i think that was a power play. it was basically saying, i think, to the international community, are you going to let us join the wto or not? this process has been dragging on for 16 years. it's time that it was brought to some sort of conclusion. either you are going to fast track these processes now and let us in or we're sending a signal that our interest in doing this is cooling. i think they sensed probably quite correctly that with georgia and ukraine on the inside of the wto that their chances of succeeding in joining has probably diminished significantly and, therefore, they are sending a signal of disinterest. >> okay, david, thanks so much for joining us this morning. david clark is the chair of the russia foundation. certainly a lot of attention will be focused on that obama visit to russia. >>> a judge, meantime, approving general motors' plan to sell the bulk of its assets into a new company clearing the way for the automaker to a emerge from ban

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view was caught completely offguard by this decision to enter into customs union arrangement with kazakhstan and pursue the w.t.o. that way. all right. thanks very much. >> thank you. well, in the fine tradition of a think tank, i may indeed disagree with my colleague a little bit. i want to focus my comments on the second day. maybe after the hour that president obama meets with prime minister putin. i've been for the last several weeks involved in organizing what is a parallel civil society summit that's going to happen on the second day. it will begin on the first day but we're hoping that we get senior representatives of both governments coming to us on the second day. this is a different kind of meetingings, we have about 75 american and russian experts coming together. these are americans primarily who have worked on the u.s., coming together with russians who've worked on russia. so we have cheegs from the affordable housing field, from the human rights field, who have worked with me on helping or trying to close guantanamo and torture and indefinite detention in this country. we have

view was caught completely offguard by this decision to enter into customs union arrangement with kazakhstan and pursue the w.t.o. that way. all right. thanks very much. >> thank you. well, in the fine tradition of a think tank, i may indeed disagree with my colleague a little bit. i want to focus my comments on the second day. maybe after the hour that president obama meets with prime minister putin. i've been for the last several weeks involved in organizing what is a parallel civil society summit that's going to happen on the second day. it will begin on the first day but we're hoping that we get senior representatives of both governments coming to us on the second day. this is a different kind of meetingings, we have about 75 american and russian experts coming together. these are americans primarily who have worked on the u.s., coming together with russians who've worked on russia. so we have cheegs from the affordable housing field, from the human rights field, who have worked with me on helping or trying to close guantanamo and torture and indefinite detention in this country. we have

central command. 20 countries, stretch from egypt in the west to pakistan in the east, kazakhstan in the north, off to the waters off somalia, and in the southern most land country in our area. you know the challenges in that area, and that is indeed why, when people ask us what we do in central command, we occasionally say we feel like the little guy in the circus who runs around trying to keep the plates spinning. this does, though, capture sort of the money slide, if you will, what it is that we try to do in central command. needless to say, we are still hard at work in iraq, and i will talk some about that. increasingly, enabling, helping the iraqi security forces, but still working against al-qaeda in remark and shi'a extremist elements that are still active. we do a great deal of work in building regional initiatives and cooperation in the araban peninsula, setting up its headquarters there after al-qaeda has been quite soundly defeated in saudi arabia and many of the gulf states. we have a very active partnership, of course, with egypt. we're concerned about reps smuggling. we