Kazakh Senate Speaker meets Ukrainian FM to eye inter-parliamentary coop
13:35, 14 October 2013
ASTANA. October 14. KAZINFORM Kazakh Senate Speaker Kairat Mami has met today with current Chairman of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara, the Senate's press service reports.
Mr. Mami stressed that Kazakhstan fully supports the program of Ukraine's chairmanship in the OSCE, aimed at raising the effectiveness of the organization. Kazakhstan attaches importance to the promotion of ideas outlined in the Astana Declaration of the 2010 OSCE Summit.
"We believe that the key issue on the agenda is the OSCE's future, its adaptation to the new international reality, and raising its effectiveness," he said.
During the meeting the sides exchanged views on the state and prospects of bilateral cooperation between Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Promotion of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two countries as well as within parliamentary structures of the CIS, OSCE, NATO, and Council of Europe was discussed.