"Absolute priority in security belongs to our foreign policy activity and to the formation of a close network of Kazakhstan's mutually advantageous relations with its neighbors and leading countries of the world."

Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

NEWS:

THE OSCE CHAIRPERSON-IN-OFFICE, KAZAKHSTAN'S SECRETARY OF STATE AND FOREIGN MINISTER, KANAT SAUDABAYEV’S VISIT TO THE USA: AN OSCE SUMMIT AND REHABILITATION OF AFGHANISTAN HIGH ON AGENDA

Washington, February 4: In his speech at the US Congress Kanat Saudabayev presented the fundamental approaches of Astana for the chairmanship of the OSCE, stressing the desire to strengthen the organization's firm commitment to its fundamental principles and values.

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV

TO THE PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN

A New Decade, a New Economic Growth,

and New Opportunities for Kazakhstan

                                           Astana, January 29 

KAZAKHSTAN STRESSES HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS IN AFGHAN REHABILITATION

London, January 28: Kazakhstan will play an active role in furthering OSCE initiatives to strengthen Afghanistan’s borders, develop cooperation and enhance law enforcement activities, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, at the international London Conference on Afghanistan today.

KAZAKHSTAN CONSOLIDATES ROLE AS WORLD’S LARGEST EXPORTER OF WHEAT FLOUR

Astana, January 25: Kazakhstan has been the world’s largest exporter of flour for the third consecutive year, with its share in the world market growing to 18 percent in 2009.

FOREIGN MINISTER KANAT SAUDABAYEV SPECIFIES CHAIRMANSHIP PRIORITIES  

Vienna, January 14: OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, speaking to the ambassadors from 56 participating States of the OSCE after the video address from the President, specified Kazakhstan’s priorities for its Chairmanship.

PRESIDENT OF KAZAKHSTAN

NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV

CALLS FOR OSCE SUMMIT

Address by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the OSCE Permanent Council

Vienna, January 14: In an unprecedented video address to the OSCE Permanent Council delivered in Vienna on January 14, President Nursultan Nazarbayev outlined his vision for Kazakhstan’s Chairmanship agenda and called for a summit of this unique organization facing a decisive moment in its history.

KAZAKHSTAN GETS CLOSER TO EUROPE,

ONE MAGAZINE AT A TIME

 January 12: “Kazakhstan, Europe’s future?” That is the question journalists of the French magazine L’Essentiel des Relations Internationales ask in their January-February issue dedicated to Kazakhstan’s chairmanship in the OSCE. As one reads through the issue, one might as well conclude that the future is now.

KAZAKHSTAN ASSUMES OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP,

WILL LAY OUT AGENDA NEXT WEEK

Astana, January 5: On January 1, 2010 Kazakhstan became the twentieth state chairing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe since the establishment of the Chairman-in-Office position in 1991.

WITH ECONOMY STABILIZED, OSCE AND CUSTOMS UNION LOOM

FOR 2010

Astana, December 29: President Nursultan Nazarbayev last week held a final press conference of the year stressing that its most important result was Kazakhstan’s ability to avert recession.

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