NATO Secretary General visits Kazakhstan

The NATO Secretary General will meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Marat Tazhin and acting Minister of Defence Mukhtar Altynbayev. The Secretary General will also meet with the Chairman of the Senate, Mr. Kasymzhomart Tokaev and will address the Academy of State.

Thursday, June 25 the Secretary General will chair the opening plenary session of the EAPC Security Forum and give a keynote address. Among keynote speakers are Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev,  Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Marat Tazhin , Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero - Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow , Assistant Secretary of Defence for, InternationalSecurity Affairs, US, Dr. Davood Moradian, Senior Policy Advisor to the Afghan,  Foreign Minister and Director General,  MFA Centre for  Strategic Studies, Amb. Aapo Pölhö, Head of Finnish Mission to NATO, Nick Grono, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, Foreign Minister of Denmark, Mr. Per Stig Møller. 

Among chairs and panelists also are Bolat Nurgaliev , Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Amb. Pierre Morel, EU Special Representative for Central Asia and for the crisis in Georgia, Amb. Miroslav Jenca, UNSGSR, Head of UN Centre for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia, Ambassador Martin Erdmann - Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Asset Magauov, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan, Tomáš Pojar, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Amb. Unal Cevikoz, Deputy Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Bogdan Aurescu , Secretary of State,  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene, Vice Minister,  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and other high ranking representatives of international organizations, defense researchers, political scientists and others.