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British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen invited to Kazakhstan - France Press

British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen invited to Kazakhstan - France Press

Almaty. October 23. Kazakhstan Today - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen and his character cranky Kazakh journalist Borat who presents Kazakhstan as the country occupied by racists and sexists where fermented horse urine is a national drink, has been invited to Kazakhstan by Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Rakhat Aliyev," France Press and Le Monde informed.

"The comedian known also for other character Ali Dzhi has never been to Kazakhstan and I would like to invite him to our country. Here he could make a lot discoveries for himself: that women do not only travel by buses, but also drive cars, that we do wine out of grapes, that Jews can freely go to a synagogue," Rakhat Aliyev said on Wednesday in the evening in the blitz-interview to Kazakhstan Today agency," the French edition quotes.

Mr. Cohen created small diplomatic incident by his jokes last year, mainly obscene, therefore, Kazakhstan officials threatened him with proceeding."

In reply to their criticism the character of Jewish comedian Sasha Baron Cohen Borat Sagdiyev has ironically commented that completely supports the position of Kazakhstan governments to suit this Jew.

"It is useless to offend the actor and threaten him with judicial claims," R. Aliyev said in blitz-interview," the French news agency concludes.

As it was informed earlier, on November 14, 2005, at the briefing for journalists the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbayev expressed his indignation and aversion of tricks of the English comedian Sasha Baron Cohen at the presentation of MTV Europe Music Awards.

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