Kazakhstan, US forge strong strategic partnership
Yerzhan Kazykhanov paid his first visit to the United States as Kazakh Foreign Minister to attend a conference of the Atlantic Council devoted to the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Gazeta.kz reported.
Speaking at the event, the minister said that Kazakhstan and the United States have managed to establish lasting strategic partnership.
He said that the citizens of Kazakhstan will always be grateful to the American people as the United States was the first country recognising the independence of Kazakhstan. He stressed that the Central Asian nation adopted the "multi-vector policy" aimed at maintaining constructive and productive relations with all countries. In this regard, he said that the friendly neighboring ties is especially aimed towards China and Russia but quickly added that’s same policy was also meant to be implemented with European countries and the US as well. He said that Kazakhstan commends several international initiatives of the United States, including the New Silk Road Initiative.
3 forge Guatemala visas to enter US, hunt on
The Immigration officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) have lodged criminal cases against three men who forged visas of Guatemala a South American country and gained illegal entry into the USA from there. In a first, the immigration officials took the help of the Consulate General of Guatemala in Delhi through the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), which said they had never issued visas affixed on the passports of the accused
persons.
Recently, Delhi Police had busted a human trafficking racket and arrested four agents who had illegally sent more than 1,000 Indians to the United States via Guatemala.
Police had also sent the list of the illegal immigrants to the MEA and were verifying about more such persons who could have travelled to the US through Guatemala. The accused agents arranged the entry of immigrants into the US through the dense forests of Mexico and charged anywhere between Rs 20-30 lakh per person. Their passports were taken away by the agents once they reached Guatemala and sent back to their families as proof that the immigrants had reached Guatemala. They then charged an additional Rs 2 lakh from them. The families then sent the passports through courier to the immigrants who had by then gained illegal entry into the US.
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