Kazakh experience in interethnic and interfaith accord unique: conference in Almaty

ALMATY. February 25. KAZINFORM /Dauren Zhailin/ ?Kazakhstan?s experience in achievement and strengthening of interethnic, interfaith and civil consent is unique?, Director of the Kazakh Institute for Strategic Studies Bulat Sultanov has said today at the scientific-practical conference ?Kazakh experience in interethnic and interfaith accord: proposals for the OSCE? in Almaty, Kazinform reports.

According to B.Sultanov, the Kazakh experience is a model of effective solution of complicated socio-political problems, excluding use of power methods. ?The basis of the model is the commitment to the principle that ethnic, confessional, cultural, language variety is our advantage under the consolidating role of the Kazakh ethnos. The Head of the State stresses that it is necessary to learn and teach how to listen to and understand others, respect the religion, language and traditions of other nations?, the head of the Institute said. The forum was held within the framework of preparation for the Kazakhstan?s OSCE chairmanship. A wide range of issues, concerning prospects of the development of interethnic and interfaith relations was discussed. Possible adaptation of the Kazakh model for all OSCE member states was considered as well. Representatives of the state bodies, the People?s Assembly of Kazakhstan, the clergy, non-governmental organizations, leading experts of analytical structures of Kazakhstan and foreign diplomats, accredited in the country took part in the conference. The organizers are the Kazakh Institute for Strategic Studies, the OSCE Center in Astana and the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.