The IOFS headquarters opened in Nur-Sultan

On December 11, 2019, the opening ceremony of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) headquarters in Nur-Sultan took place in the building of the Astana International Financial Center. 

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Shakhrat Nuryshev, Vice Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Nurbek Dairbekov, Director General of the IOFS Yerlan Baidaulet, as well as senior officials of the ministries of agriculture of Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ambassadors of the OIC member countries in Kazakhstan attended the ceremony. 

In his speech, Shakhrat Nuryshev noted that Kazakhstan would continue to provide comprehensive support to the activities of the IOFS, including the expansion of the membership of this organization. 

On the margins of the event, the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Agrarian Scientific and Educational Center and the IOFS took place.

On the same day, at the headquarters of the IOFS, the fourth regular meeting of the IOFS Executive Board was opened during which the participants discussed current activities of the Organization aimed at enhancing practical cooperation between the OIC member countries in the field of food security.

The initiative of establishing the IOFS within the framework of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation belongs to the First President of Kazakhstan, Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev. Currently, the Organization includes 34 states of the Islamic world and its activities are aimed at mobilizing the efforts of the Muslim world in the field of agricultural development and food resources.