Crucial to introduce disciplines on raising tolerance in schools of OSCE states - Kazakh NGO rep
12:56, 27 November 2010
ASTANA. November 27. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Nongovernmental organizations should recommend ministries of education to introduce disciplines on raising tolerance in education programs of schools. The representative of the Kazakh Center for Public Consent has announced it at the OSCE Review Conference held in the Palace of Peace and Concord.
"Political stability in Kazakhstan, interethnic peace and concord, absence of neo-Nazi, fascist organizations have done their work - migrants flooded the country. They are ethnic Kazakhs, who annually arrive in number of 20,000 families. They are labor migrants, about one million people. And youth, which wants to obtain education in Kazakhstan, including the Afghan one - 40,000 people", he said.
The speaker noted that Kazakhstan's population remains friendly and tolerant relation to migrant workers. He suggested to all NGOs to propose education ministries of their countries on introduction of special disciplines on raising tolerance and familiarization with culture of various nations to education programs.