Kazakh FM pledges to intensify coop with UNODC
14:07, 14 June 2011
ASTANA. June 14. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ Today Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov met with UN Under-Secretary General, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov, who arrived in Astana for participation in the SCO Summit in charge of the UN delegation.
First of all, the Kazakh FM congratulated Yury Fedotov on the recent appointment to this post expressing confidence that cooperation between Kazakhstan and UNODC would intensify and raise its effectiveness.
Kazykhanov briefed Fedotov on the agenda of the 38th session of the Foreign Ministers' Council of the Organization of Islamic Conference under the motto "Peace, Cooperation and Development". He noted the OIC Ministers are expected to adopt decisions of historic meaning for the formation and development of the Organization.