There is urgent need in cultural, civilization and inter-faith dialogue in OSCE responsibility area - President

Today the world community including the OSCE states faces many problems connected with ethnic and religious tolerance.

"Kazakhstan as a multi-national and multi-confessional country adheres to the ideas of inter-cultural, inter-civilization dialogue and stands for active usage of the OSCE potential for effective overcoming nationalism, religious intolerance, racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism", said the President.

The problem of tolerance will be in spotlight of Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the OSCE in 2010 and in the OIC in 2011.

The Kazakh Leader also noted successful results of the OSCE High-level Conference on Tolerance and Non-discrimination held in Astana last month which prove importance of exchange of experience in inter-ethnic and inter-faith harmony provision.

"I suppose we must together analyze seriousness of the policy of tolerance over the past decades and develop a common document which can be entitled "OSCE - towards Tolerance in New Decade", N. Nazarbayev said at the OSCE Foreign Ministers informal meeting in Almaty oblast today.