Meetings were held with representatives of Pakistan and the clergy of Great Britain

Today the Minister of Information and Social Development Aida Balayeva met with the Director General of the Institute for the Study of Islam of the International Islamic University of Islamabad, Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq, as well as with the representative of the Anglican Church, Bishop of Dorking Joe Bailey Wells. 

Representatives of Pakistan and the clergy of Great Britain arrived in Kazakhstan to participate in the XIX meeting of the Secretariat, which will be held on October 6 in Nur-Sultan.

A meeting of the Working Group of the Congress Secretariat was held today, during which an exchange of views took place on the issues on the agenda, discussion of the topics of the VII Congress and the format of its holding. 

The Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions is the working body of the Congress, which provides activities in between its meetings and was founded according to the decision of the participants of the First Congress, held in 2003 in the capital of Kazakhstan. 

The Minister expressed gratitude to Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq and Joe BaileyWell for their participation in the work of the Secretariat. 

She noted that the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions initiated by Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev has successfully transformed into a permanent international interfaith institute for the dialogue of religions and the adoption of coordinated decisions.