Astana hosts I International Festival of Military Bands
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Military orchestras from Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Turkiye, Uzbekistan and Japan are performing at the stage of the Amphitheatre in Astana.
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Kazakhstan is represented at the event by the Central Military Orchestra of the National Military-Patriotic Centre of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Presidential Orchestra of the State Guard Service and the Military Ensemble of the National Guard.
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Deputy Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Sultan Kamaletdnov welcomed the participants.
«Our International Festival of Military Orchestras is a bright example of that Astana has turned into the center of rapprochement of cultures and peoples, the city of peace and creativity. I am sure this unique event will benefit to the development of cooperation, promotion of ideas of peace and good-neighborhood,» he said.
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