«Altai - Golden Cradle of Turkic world» opens in E-Kazakhstan rgn
UST-KAMENOGORSK. August 26. KAZINFORM - Today in Ust-Kamenogorsk opens II International Forum of Turkic-speaking countries called "Altai - Golden Cradle of the Turkic world."
The forum will begin with a scientific conference which will be attended by over 400 representatives from 20 countries. Forty five persons were invited as guests of honor including Olzhas Suleymenov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO; Duysen Kaseinov, Secretary General of TURKSOI international organization; Shakir Ybyraev, president of the International Turkic Academy; Murat Zhurinov, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ambassadors of Japan, South Korea and South Africa.
Tomorrow the event will move to "Valley of Kings" in Katonkaragay district. There will take place a music festival-contest. It is expected that it will feature more than 90 artists from the Turkic-speaking countries.
This is already the second Turkic Forum, which is held on the territory of the Kazakhstani Altai. As it was reported before, the first forum "Altai - Golden Cradle of the Turkic world" was carried out two years ago and the event takes place once every 2 years.