In Moscow a meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council (CSC) opened yesterday timed to the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 10th anniversary of the CSTO establishment. The Declaration adopted by the heads of state reflects the main aspects of cooperation between the member countries over this lapse and also the long-term outlook for it.

In St. Petersburg yesterday the Coordinating Council of CIS attorney generals met in conference that heard a performance report on the Council and other matters related to its work.

In Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) Kazakh delegation led by deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Sarybai shared in the ministerial meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

In Akorda yesterday, the State Secretary Mukhtar Kul-Muhammed chaired a meeting of the National Commission under the President on the state symbols.

The spring-field works, a bill to reduce by third all types of licenses drafted on the President’s instructions, measures proposed by the Agency on regulation of natural monopolies to improve tariff policy and other topical issues were on the agenda of the Government’s meeting yesterday.

Since independence Kazakhstan has created a unique model of interethnic and interfaith harmony which is known and recognized around the world as the Kazakhstan Way.

Kazakh delegation took part in the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), held in Vienna.

Spring field work is in full swing and JSC Agrarian Credit Corporation provides loans to agricultural producers. By date, farmers of major grain growing regions such as Akmolinsk, Aktobe, Karaganda, Kostanai and North Kazakhstan have been given loans worth 26 billion 705 million tenge.

More than 80 helicopter flights have been made this year in "Kazaviaspas" JSC under the ministry for emergencies that saved dozens of lives and that is part of the National Healthcare Program "Salamatty Kazakstan," implemented jointly with the healthcare ministry.

Family teaches us to care, respect people, take on responsibility. It gives us the feeling of reliability, protection, ability to raise a child in love. As part of the Republican campaign “Future starts today!” the Institute for Family Education with the assistance from the education and science ministry, Astana administration and Astana branch of Nur Otan has organized a special event timed to the International Family Day. In the capital’s 70 schools, colleges and clinics, its alumni – teachers and psychologists gave free consultations.

More than 38 thousand Kazakhstanis, including more than 12.5 thousand children have been screened and received medical treatment over five months of operation of three “health trains” – “Densaulyk”, “Zhardem” and “Salamatty Kazakstan” going to remote districts. This project is being implemented for the third consecutive year jointly by the emergency situations ministry and JSC “National Company “Kazakstan temir zholy” in accordance with the President’s state-of-the-nation address.

The first national congress of lawyers opens today in Astana. It is expected to be attended by representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Office of the Prime Minister, MPs, and lawyers of central and state agencies, national companies, well-known scholars and human rights activists. In all, the forum is to bring together about fifteen hundred delegates from different regions of the country. It is expected to consider the establishment of Kazakhstan Lawyers Union.

An art exhibition of photographer Erwin Olaf at the Nazarbayev Center opened the Dutch Week in Kazakhstan. Charge d’Affaires of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in RK Peter van Leeuwen said that our countries that have extensive experience in economic cooperation would expand cultural cooperation through this event.