Small Kurultai of Kazakhs to kick off in Dushanbe April 20
18:10, 20 April 2009
ASTANA. April 20. KAZINFORM /Kurmat Samarkhan/ Small Kurultai (congress) of the Kazakhs of Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan will be held in Dushanbe on April 20-22, Press Secretary of the Kazakh MFA Ilyas Omarov has informed at a briefing today. The event is organized by the Kazakh Embassy together with ?Baiterek? Public Association of the Kazakhs of Tajikistan.
?The Small Kurultai will be held for the first time in Central Asia. Representatives of the Kazakh Diaspora living in Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will gather for the event. Our delegation will be led by First Vice Chairman of the World Association of the Kazakhs Talgat Mamashev?, the Press secretary informed.