Bolashak Fellows Visit UN Headquarters in New York

New York, 29 November 2019 - The Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations organized a visit to the UN headquarters for Bolashak fellows studying at leading universities in New York. The event was dedicated to the celebration of the Day of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kazakh master’s students from Columbia and New York universities visited the halls of the General Assembly, the UN Security Council, conference buildings and also saw a copy of the Golden Man given by the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the United Nations in 1997.

During the meeting with Bolashak fellows at the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the UN, Ambassador Kairat Umarov spoke about the specifics of the work of Kazakhstani diplomats at the UN, key UN international initiatives put forward by First President Nazarbayev - including the ‘Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia’, the launch of the ‘Code of Conduct Towards Achieving a World Free of Terrorism’ and the ‘International Day against Nuclear Tests’. He also shared his vision of the contemporary role of the United Nations in maintaining global peace and security, protecting human rights and promoting economic and social progress.

The Ambassador elaborated on the main priorities of Kazakhstan membership in the UN Security Council in 2017-2018 and answered questions from the students.

“We became the first state in the region elected to the UN Security Council, and today the international authority of Kazakhstan has grown significantly thanks to the forward-looking initiatives and diplomatic efforts of Elbasy, who has always firmly and skillfully defended the interests of our country in the world arena. Today this greatly facilitates the work of our diplomats at the UN”, Mr. Umarov emphasized.

At the end of the meeting, the head of the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the UN wished the young scholars of the Bolashak program success in their study and new ideas.

Among the participants of the meeting were future specialists in the field of international relations and world politics, public administration, PR and corporate communications, journalism and digital media in the field of education.