An International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Independence of Kazakhstan was held in Kyiv

An International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Independence of Kazakhstan was held in Kyiv

Kyiv, December 14, 2021 - An international scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held in Kyiv with the participation of international experts, politicians, public figures and the media.

The event was held by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ukraine on the eve of the Independence Day. The event was co-organized:

from the Kazakh side –by the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KISS), the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (CPCI);

from the Ukrainian side –by the National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine (NISS), KievStratPro Expert Platform.

The event was also supported by the International Turkic Academy (ITA).

The conference was held in a hybrid format. Online in connection with the Kyiv "platform" were KISS, CPCI, the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NAS RK), the N.A. Nazarbayev Center for Development of Interfaith and Inter-civilizational Dialogue (N.A. Nazarbayev Center), the Scientific and Educational Center “Green Academy”, as well as individual participants. In total about 150 persons.

Opening the conference, the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Ukraine DarkhanKaletayev noted the historically established friendly relations between Kazakhstan and Ukraine. After a slight decline in economic ties, a recovering dynamics is observed. After falling in 2020 to the “bottom” of 750 million dollars the volume of trade turnover this year, as expected, may exceed the level of 1 billion dollars.

As a result of the painstaking work of business community, expert structures and the mass media those indicators of mutual trade that were earlier at the level of $ 5 billionmay return and possibly even exceed. Trade develops when there is trust and confidence in a partner. The Ambassador emphasized that the future would belong to states developing on the principles of ethnic consolidation, which was an important factor in the consistency of the Political Nation.

The peculiarity of the current conference was its bilingualformat, as for the first time it was held in the Kazakh-Ukrainian languages. The participants were given the opportunity to speak their national language. At the same time, simultaneous interpretation was provided.

The conference was attended by prominent scientists and public figures, leaders of the leading expert centers of Kazakhstan and Ukraine - Director of the NISS Alexander Bogomolov, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Murat Zhurinov, Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleg Rafalsky, Director of the Institutes of History of Ukraine Valery Smoliy, Director of History and Ethnology of Kazakhstan Ziyabek Kabuldinov , director of Ukrainian archeography and source study Georgy Papakin, founder of the Institute of History and State of the Republic of Kazakhstan Burkitbay Ayagan, as well as Acting Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Viktor Kiktenko, head of the Group for inter-parliamentary relations with the Republic of Kazakhstan of the Verkhovna Rada Sergey Nagornyak, deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Berik Aidosgaliuly and Sarym, Vice President of the International Turkic Academy Majidli Fuzuli, Rectors of Kiev and Eurasian National Universities Vladimir Bugrov and Yerlan Sydykov, Vice President of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Oleg Topuzov and his counterpart partner er - President of the Y. Altynsarin National Academy of Education - Gani Beisembayev. The heads of the departments responsible for coordinating the archival work of the two countries - Anatoly Khromov and Kuat Borash also spoke.

Also, the conference was attended by officials involved in organizing a religious dialogue – representatives of the State Service of Ukraine for National Minorities and Freedom of Conscience and N.A.Nazarbayev Center.

Such well-known Kazakhstani experts as Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Sultan Akimbekov, Head of the Strategy Center Gulmira Ileuova, Head of the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Research Talgat Kaliyev took part offlinein Kyiv.

Also, Deputy Director of KISS Alua Zholdybalina arrived in Kyiv and took direct part in the ceremony of signing a Memorandum of Understanding between KISS and NISS.

An expert from the Institute of World Economy and Politics under the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation Lidia Parkhomchik was in touch from Almaty.

The head of the CSCI Lima Diaz made a presentation on the possibilities of supporting the dialogue between the civil societies of Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Ukrainiananalytical structures were represented byexperts from Razumkov Center, Ukrainian Institute of the Future, Strategic group Sofia.

Within the framework of the conferencewas held a panel session on the interaction of the expert communities of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. There were discussed specific projects in the field of history, organization of search and archival work. The demographic and social consequences of the Holodomor in both Kazakhstan and Ukraine also were considered.

Representatives of the business community prepared presentations, in particular Timur Izbasarov regarding the creation of the Kazakh-Ukrainian Trade Council in Ukraine, Evgeniy Pushchik from the Ukrainian Technology Company on the prospects for decarbonization of the economies of Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

A dialogue between sociologists Kamila Kovyazina about the study of youth and Eset Yessengaraev on the mental development of post-Soviet societies took place.

The audience was also attracted by the speech of Oksana Karbovskaya, the founder of the network of inclusive schools "Mosaic".

Regional universities of Kazakhstan and Ukraine were involved in the conference. Representatives of the creative sector were invited, including book publishers, the Writers' Union of both Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the State Museum of Arts named after A. Kasteev, where the famous collection of T.G. Shevchenko's drawings is kept.

In general, the experts agreed on the need to increase the intensity of communication between the experts of the two countries, that one conference cannot remove the accumulated communication deficit between the meaning-generating classes of Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

As a result of the event, the conference participants adopted Recommendations to the governments of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine on further strengthening of bilateral relations in the context of celebrating in 2022 the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries.