Astana discusses repatriation problems within 4th World Kurultay of Kazakhs
18:48, 26 May 2011
ASTANA. May 26. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ A roundtable meeting on "Ethnic repatriation at the present stage: state and problems" was held today in Astana within the 4th World Kurultay of Kazakhs. The event was organized by the Committee on Migration Police of the Kazakh Internal Affairs Ministry, the Consular Service Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the World Association of Kazakhs.
The meeting participants focused on fulfillment of the Kazakh President's instructions in migration activity, the urgent issues of moving of Ethnic Kazakhs, their adaptation and obtaining citizenship.
Besides, the employees of the Kazakh MFA gave explanations on how to work with the representatives of the Kazakh Diaspora abroad.
According to Chairman of the MIA Migration Police Committee Hibratulla Doskaliyev, in the past three years the number of families moving to Kazakhstan reached 20 thousand per year.