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Blue hats and wife storage - Borat haunts Kazakh president
Sep. 29, 2006

 

The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, met George Bush in the White House yesterday vowing to continue to push for the modernisation of his central Asian country.

"Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old," he said.

The discussion between the two leaders ranged widely to include nuclear disarmament, Kazakhstan's booming industry in oil and fermented horse urine, and the country's advocacy of the death penalty for baking bagels, a policy warmly supported by the Bush administration.

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Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1884317,00.html


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