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Kazakhstan has good relations with all of its neighbors. Kazakhstan is a member of the United Nations, Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and North Atlantic Cooperation Council . It also is an active participant in NATO's Partnership for Peace program. Kazakhstan is also a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization along with Russia, the People's Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan established the Eurasian Economic Community in 2000 to reenergize earlier efforts at harmonizing trade tariffs and the creation of a free trade zone under a Customs Union. Disputes - international:
Caspian Sea boundaries are not yet determined among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan; Russia leases approximately 6,000 kmē of territory enclosing the Baikonur CosmodromeThe Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Russian: Kosmodrom Baykonur , also called Tyuratam is the world's oldest and largest working space launch facility. It was originally built by the Soviets and is now under Russian regulation, although located in Kazakhstan. It is
Illicit drugs:
significant illicit cultivation of cannabissee text Cannabis is a genus of dioecious, annual herbs that belong to the family Cannabaceae, which was formerly placed with the nettles in the order Urticales, but is now in the order Rosales. There is phylogenetic controversy as to whether the cultivat and limited cultivation of opiumOpium is a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum . To harvest opium, the skin of the ripening pods is scored by a sharp blade. The slashes exude a white, milky latex, poppyFor the video game character, see Poppy (video game character). cemetery, France. Poppies are often seen as a symbol of World War I A poppy is an annual, biennial, or perennial plant of the Family Papaveraceae, typically with showy flowers borne one per s and ephedraSee text Ephedra is a genus of gymnosperm shrubs, the only genus in the family Ephedraceae and order Ephedrales . These plants occur in dry climates over a wide area mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, across southern Europe, north Africa, southwest and ce (for the drug ephedrone); limited government eradication program; cannabis consumed largely in the CIS; used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia, North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, and Western EuropeWestern Europe is distinguished from Central Europe and Eastern Europe by differences of history and culture rather than by geography. However, these boundaries of Europe are subject to considerable overlap and fluctuation, which makes differentiation dif from Southwest Asia
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