May Day to be one of Kazakhstan's main holidays - Nazarbayev
ASTANA. April 18. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ The 1st of May will be one of our main holidays. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said it in his opening speech at the 17th session of the People's Assembly of Kazakhstan in Astana.
"This year we will mark the 1st of May in a new format. As you know, I gave this instruction last year on Independence Day. Mass marches and patriotic actions will be held throughout the country. The spring festival of May Day should further bring together all the ethnic groups of our country," Nazarbayev noted.
He thanked the members of the Assembly, ethno-cultural centers for their support during the early presidential elections and stressed that the people of Kazakhstan became even more united after these elections.