Senate Speaker K.Tokayev, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France meet in Astana

Chairman of the Kazakh Senate, head of the Congress Secretariat Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev expressed such opinion at the meeting with Metropolitan Emmanuel of France. The meeting was held within the framework of the regular 9th session of the Secretariat; the Senate's press service reports.
The issues of further development of Nursultan Nazarbayev's initiative on tuning up and strengthening interfaith concord and dialogue between civilizations were discussed at the meeting.
Conveying greetings to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the Speaker thanked the guest for active participation in the work of the religious summit.
Highly appraising the role of the religious forum carried out on the Kazakh President's initiative, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France emphasized significance of the Congress as authoritative part of the global dialogue between religions and civilizations.