the former soviet republic of kyrgyzstan was once the only place to find tolerance.tly discovered all of that is about to change. >> this is one of the very few openly gay clubs in asia. it's called myak and in english, that means lighthouse. >> but on the streets, the tone is very different. >> local people don't want your western kind of ideas about gays and lesbians. >> does he mean execute, put them to death when he says round them up and punish them? can you ask him that now? >> behind me is the equivalent of new york city hall where people from far and wide come to tie the knot. good old traditional values. the values that some members of parliament feel are being threatened by the lgbi community, so much so they'll be voting on the new legislation. if successful, this law would become effective on january 1st, 2015. >> and the bill has many vocal supporters. >> lgbt makes it a crime to advocate any form of gay life through any form of media by anyone. >> homophobia has been here, but in recent years it started becoming associated with physical aggression. >> t

. >> that's going to go to the kyrgyzstan region? >> that's going to go to the kyrgyzstan region. >> can we move on to russia. since last week, russia has chosen the role of pariah, rather than partner, and it rejected the efforts to draw themselves into the rules-based international system. does that have any impact on our diplomatic approach to russia? >> i don't personally believe in dissenting. i think it's very clear that russia has had the option of being in a partnership relationship with the west. indeed, that's been our strong preference and desire for the last 20 -- nearly 25 years since the end of the cold war, to draw russia into the community of nations, to have a partnership with russia, recognizing that we won't agree on everything. and we have strategic differences. but we -- we are in a sincere belief that we are able to work constructively together as partners. russia has shown by its actions that it rejects that notion of partnership. and i chose the word pariah quite deliberately. we have a long established relati

and finally, there are deep internal power struggles going on inside the kyrgyzstan region right now. they existed before, but since the isil you had puk working and the iranians are have provided necessary weapons to the kurds. both have agreed, barzani thanked the iranians, but nonetheless you have that division. and i don't want to make it so clean cut, but it was the barzani, turkey division and then the puk, pyd, pkk iran division and that is playing off each other. this intervention is giving these groups the opportunities certainly to come together in this authenticating kurdish national im, but it's also reinforcing some of those divisions that are going to keep, in my view, these groups apart at least strategically but on a tactical level to use each other particularly as the americans engage and the coalition engages to assist iraqi kurds in month providing weapons and military assistance. i think i'm going to close there. so, again, think of this alliance -- don't be worried. i don't think that there's -- you know, worrying there's going to be an independent kyrgyzstan last

. >> if you won't mind telling us the border of the region called kyrgyzstan, and does it include any other region that's not currently part of the krg's rule? and if there are any aspirations to include those in the future? >> yeah. >> the british probably took up a ruling and drew that. maybe they could on then't have done that better. >>. >> gld but it's called. >> your. >> it will always be disputed. remember, the same happens between sunnis and places including ramadi and even the southern. so it's a tough one. but no two curds would disagree on the bigger picture. and when it comes to lining, it's going to have to be debated very carefully. >> so, last question, yeah? >> claudia fausht, george mason, university. just one last question so late in the game. i guess it's kind of e radical. are there any bases for define ing nonterritorial. it would give a kind of freedom to move from group-to-group to register for whatever it is they need to decide. i'm thinking of identity groups as a basis, rather than territories. but there may be other defining possibilities. >> well, i've neve

all of them but iraq and kyrgyzstan have some air force ground attack capabilities. end of quote. furthermore, madam president, not only are countries in the region not stepping up in the fight against isis but, believe it or not, several of these gulf states are empowering isis and al qaeda related groups through their financial contribution. a recent article in "the washington post" noted -- and i quote -- "kuwait, a u.s. ally whose aid to besieged syrian civilians has been surpassed only by the united states this year, is also the leading source of funding for al qaeda linked terrorists fighting in syria's civil war." now, think back not so long ago when the united states of america went to war to push saddam hussein's troops out of kuwait and restored the ruling family. and today we find that kuwait is the leading source of funding for al qaeda linked terrorists fighting in syria's civil war." the article goes on to state that -- quote -- "the amount of money that has flowed from kuwaiti individuals and through organized charities to syrian rebel groups such as jalbat al nusra