Kazakhstan's upcoming chairmanship in OSCE has great significance for all CA states - Ambassador Yerzhan Kazykhanov

sp;VIENNA-BRUSSELS. November 13. KAZINFORM /Yerzhan Ospanov/ The upcoming chairmanship of Kazakhstan in the OSCE has great significance for all Central Asian states.

Kazakh Ambassador to Austria Yerzhan Kazykhanov has announced it delivering a welcome speech at an international conference entitled "Central Asia on the threshold of the 20^th anniversary of independence, development and prospects" at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

According to the information of the Kazakh Embassy in Vienna, experts from Austria, Germany and Kazakhstan took part in the conference.

The head of the diplomatic mission expressed gratitude to the European partners for support of Kazakhstan's candidacy for the OSCE chairman post in 2010 and noted that it will promote attraction of potential and instruments of the OSCE for construction of secure, stable and prosperous Central Asia.

Yerzhan Kazykhanov emphasized significance of the 'European vector' of the Kazakh foreign policy.

The event's organizer is the Austrian Oriental Society under the auspices of the Kazakh Embassy in Austria.