Senate Chairman Tokayev meets with Special Envoy of the OSCE PA

T.Mariani stressed successful chairmanship in the OSCE in 2010 and expressed interest of the Parliamentary Assembly to further strengthen comprehensive cooperation with the Central Asia.
K.Tokayev told about the situation in the region as well as current socio-economic development of Kazakhstan and priorities of the Parliament's legislative activity. Kazakhstan, as part of the global market, is taking a long-term comprehensive measures to diversify the national economy and improve the living standards of the citizens. Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev gave instructions to increase payments on pensions, allowances, scholarships, salaries.
Referring to the Kazakh-French relations, the Senate speaker stressed the strategic nature of bilateral cooperation as well as fruitful partnership in the context of relations with the European Union.