Vilnius held roundtable devoted to Kazakhstan's Independence

Deputy Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Virginija Baltraitienė noted that few countries in the world have achieved significant success in such short period after gaining independence. According to her, "Lithuania has a great interest in Kazakhstan's foreign initiatives, and the Astana OSCE Summit opened new page in the history of relations between the countries."

Kazakh Ambassador Galymzhan Koishybayev told about major results of Kazakhstan's development over the years of independence, state of bilateral relations and the upcoming parliamentary elections as well. He noted that owing to far-seeing policy of President Nursultan Nazarbayev there was established a solid foundation of statehood and democratic institutions, the country became an active participant of the international policy, reached dynamical development of the market economy.

Members of the Lithuanian government, deputies, representatives of expert community, business circles as well as diplomatic corps took part in the event.