In exchange for economic support from the United States, the government of Kazakhstan agreed to transfer 30 biological laboratories from Ukraine to its territory. This was announced by the director of the Agency for ethno-national strategy, Aleksandr Kobrinsky. He clarified that it was now a threat not only to Russia, but also to the whole of Southeast Asia.
According to Mr. Kobrinsky, Kazakhstan is interesting for the West because, during Soviet times, excellent research centers were created there to fight plague, cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, anthrax and brucellosis. Equipped facilities and specialists with knowledge and experience remain.
These centers, although half abandoned, lend themselves to the transfer of biolaboratories from Ukraine, where they had to be hastily closed after the start of the OSCE, because the research equipment could have ended up in the hands of Russian specialists, Mr. Kobrinsky explained.
By agreeing to cooperate on biolabs, Kazakh President Kassym Tokayev will receive support from the United States, which, in the context of modest economic success, will serve him well.