President Nazarbayev laid flowers to Motherland Defender's Monument in Astana
13:46, 7 May 2010
ASTANA. May 7. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ President of Kazakhstan and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Nursultan Nazarbayev has laid flowers to the monument of the Motherland Defender in Astana today.
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov, Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, Astana Akim Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Parliament deputies and representatives of the diplomatic corps in Kazakhstan attended the ceremony.
More than 400 veterans of war from Astana, Almaty and other regions of Kazakhstan took part in the event.
After the flower-laying ceremony the attendees commemorated the Kazakhstanis who gave their lives for our peaceful future with a moment of silence.