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Aigul Kuspan, former head of the Kazakh mission to the European Union and current chair of Kazakhstan’s parliamentary committee on international affairs, says the bloc often comes across as self-assured and borderline ignorant in terms of global affairs.
Aigul Kuspan is a career diplomat and former professor of foreign languages. She served as ambassador to Belgium from 2018 until earlier this year. After being winning a seat in Kazakh elections in January, she was appointed chair of the country’s parliamentary committee on international affairs.
She spoke to EURACTIV Senior Editor Georgi Gotev on Thursday (6 May).