?Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Friendship Forever?- ?Word of Kyrgyzstan? newspaper

BISHKEK. February 19. KAZINFORM /Vladimir Dobrovolsky/ Under the rubric?World mass media about Kazakhstan? Kazinform offers its readers the material of Kyrgyz Newspaper ?The Word of Kyrgyzstan? narrating about the initiative of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Bishkek that had announced contest ?Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Friendship Forever?.

The article published in the newspaper from February 18, 2009 informs that the contest is held at the initiative of the Embassy of Kazakhstan together with the International Fund and Mukhtar Auezov?s Museum-House with the information support of ?Adaby Ala-Too? newspaper. According to the newspaper the contest is to enhance historical and literature-cultural ties between the two nations as well as the development of humanitarian-cultural partnership among the Central Asian counties. According to the article the authors of fiction, scientific research and journalism published in Kyrgyz press can take part in the contest. Material presented for the contest should cover interrelation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh history, culture and literature including economic relations between two countries in the light of the Kazakh President?s initiative to create Union of the Central Asian countries. The material for the contest can be presented in Russian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages. The results of the contest will be summarized on April, 8, 2009 on the eve of singing an Agreement on eternal friendship between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan