Chairman of Mazhilis of Kazakhstan: Astana makes significant contribution to ensuring peace and development

Kazakhstan makes a significant contribution to ensuring peace and sustainable development.

About this on Monday, on March 25, the chairman of the Mazhilis of Kazakhstan Yerlan Koshanov stated at a meeting of the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, the press service of the Mazhilis reports.

First of all, these are large -scale political reforms in the country, thanks to which all the conditions for building a democratic, fair Kazakhstan have been created today, he said.

“The parliament takes an active part in their implementation. The initiatives of our country to prohibit nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, regular congresses of world leaders and traditional religions are of an active part,” said Yerlan Koshanov.

The Chairman of the Mazhilis also noted the importance of participating in parliaments of the whole world in promoting the goals of sustainable development of the UN and spoke about plans to create the UN Regional Center for Sustainable Development for Central Asia and Afghanistan in Almaty.

Separately dwell on work on the gender agenda conducted on the sites of dialogue of women of Central Asia and the Technowomen Central Asia community.

The Chairman of the Mazhilis invited parliamentarians to actively participate in the development of international transport and logistics cooperation.

He noted that Kazakhstan is tirelessly working on diversification of transcontinental transportation throughout the Eurasian continent.

The speaker of the Mazhilis also touched on the issues of food security, giving an example of the work of the Islamic organization for food security.

Speaking of the effective use of water resources, he recalled the One Water summit initiated by the presidents of Kazakhstan and France in New York and the plans of Kazakhstan to conduct a regional climate summit under the auspices of the UN in 2026.

At the site of the MPS assembly, meetings of the Chairman of the Mazhilis with the speaker of the House of Egypt Hanafi Jebali and the chairman of the National Assembly of Pakistan Sardar Sadik were also held. Yerlan Koshanov informed foreign colleagues about reforms carried out in Kazakhstan, and also discussed the paths of further interaction with them.