President gave certain tasks on improvement of Security Council's activity

sp; ASTANA. December 8. KAZINFORM  /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Today in Akorda Palace Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev has entrusted the Council of Security with certain tasks on improving its activity, Marat Tazhin, Secretary of the Council has informed at a briefing after the session.

"In the course of the sitting the President highlighted the growing role of the structures which are responsible for strategic planning and forecast amid the modern conditions when the entire world faces serious changes in economy, policy, and the changes in public institutions. And the Security Council is that synthetic body in the majority of the countries which specializes in analysis and forecast of the situation", M. Tazhin said.

He informed the journalists of the tasks given by the President to the Council. They are primarily connected with improvement and strengthening of the Security Council's activity including its apparatus.

"We will need new information, analytical structures under the Security Council. The activity of the interdepartmental structures will also be changed", he added.  

As earlier reported, the agenda of the sitting included the following issues: improvement of the Council's work, the strategy of the country's post-crisis development and preparation for the OSCE presidency in 2010.