DISINFO: EU Resolution on Central Asia: critical materials for LGBT agenda
SUMMARY
The European Union sees Kazakhstan as a key conduit for its interests and neoliberal values in Central Asia, as it has significant economic interests there. For example, the Central Asia 2024 Resolution did not include 'helping Central Asian countries with technologies.' Instead it says that what needs to be pushed into Central Asia is the blue, pink [LGBT], and green agenda, to develop the Trans-Caspian transport corridor, and to detach the region from Russia.
The EU still wants to hinder trade with Russia. Central Asia is constantly urged to focus on LGBTQ+ and gender programmes instead. The EU aims to obtain strategic resources from the region, detach it from Russia, and in return, is willing to promote the LGBT agenda.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the belligerent West trying to encircle Russia, made in the context of measures being taken to enforce the sanctions on Russia imposed by the EU in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
At the same time, the claim mix in the narrative of the morally corrupt West, portraying Russia as superior to the West in terms of values and morals and promoting the concept of the Russian world/civilisation as the only possible saviour of humanity.
Western values are presented as pernicious, immoral, degenerate, and a threat to traditional values. The narrative about threatened values, one of the most common pro-Kremlin narratives, suggests that those who are committed to them are now threatened by those who oppose them and instead seek to establish a morally bankrupt dystopia.
Regarding the cooperation between the EU and Central Asia, the EU bases its cooperation with its partners on shared values, principles and goals. The EU-Central Asia strategy outlines three priority strands for EU engagement: investing in regional cooperation and partnering for resilience and prosperity.
At the inaugural Global Gateway Investors Forum for EU-Central Asia Transport Connectivity, which took place on 29-30 January 2024, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said that EU-Central Asia cooperation is "about much more than finance":
“… we also be exchanging expertise, sharing knowledge, facilitating the work and dividing labour between international public and private investors. It will be about finding the best ways to deliver the required soft and hard investments, as well as technical assistance. And it will be about our joint ambitions and turning them into reality - together.”
It was announced that European and international financial institutions present at the Forum will commit €10 billion in support and investments towards sustainable transport connectivity in Central Asia. The development of transport connectivity is important factor for the strengthening the regional integration and economic development of Central Asia.
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