Deputy
Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mr. Akylbek Kamaldinov participated in
the 6th Ministerial Conference of Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process on
Afghanistan in Amritsar on December 3-4, 2016.
In
his address, Mr. Kamaldinov said that Kazakhstan would continue to
actively contribute to international efforts to stabilize the
situation in Afghanistan at both multilateral and bilateral levels.
He expressed confidence that further promotion of regional
cooperation would help the emergence of Afghanistan as a stable
state, whose territory would not foment security threats including
terrorism and drug crimes in the region.
He
stated that Kazakhstan has become the first country in Central Asia
to be a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for
2017-2018, which would be an additional opportunity for strengthening
security and stability in the region. He called on the regional
countries to unite in the fight against international terrorism,
extremism, illegal migration, drug trafficking and other global
challenges and reaffirmed that these issues would be the highest
priority in the forthcoming Kazakhstan's membership in the UN
Security Council.
