David Cameron to challenge human rights abuses in visit to Kazakhstan

Prime Minister David Cameron with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive

The Prime Minister has just arrived in Kazakhstan on the last and most controversial leg of this three-country trip.

It is a country most well known back home for being thoroughly sent up by Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat but according to charities it actually has a record on human rights that is distinctly dubious.

Before he left Islamabad Mr Cameron promised that nothing would be off the table in his meetings with President Nazarbayev, who has ruled pretty much unchallenged for over two decades, and that everything including human rights would be raised.

Amnesty International has said:

Kazakhstan is one of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world and that in a nutshell is what this visit is all about - trade, energy deals and British business interests.

And presumably no mention of Borat.