Nursultan Nazarbayev: Situation in world complicates test that Kazakhstan should withstand

ASTANA. January 14. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ The current situation in the world complicates the test, which Kazakhstan should withstand as the OSCE chair-country. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has made it public in his address at the inaugural meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna.

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"Erosion of the regime of proliferation mass destruction weapons, terrorism, humanitarian and environmental catastrophes, hunger, poverty, epidemics, energy resources reduction, interethnic and interfaith conflicts - this is not a full list of challenges of the temporary human civilization, struggle against which requires efforts from such authoritative multilateral institutions like the OSCE", the President said. He noted that as a result of the world financial-economic crisis the global world holds tectonic moves, and this process is not yet completed.

The Kazakh President emphasized, that the most topical problems have always been a priority of the country's foreign policy.