The 29th session of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan will be held on April 28, 2021

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to convene the 29th session of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan (hereinafter – the APK) in the city of Nur-Sultan.

The session of the APK will be held in the Nazarbayev Center. The upcoming session will be devoted to the discussion of Kazakhstan's achievements over 30 years of Independence and the theme of the session is formulated as follows: "30 years of unity, peace and harmony".

The APK was established on March 1, 1995 on the initiative of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev. The activities of the APK are aimed at implementing the state national policy, ensuring socio-political stability in the republic and increasing the effectiveness of interaction between state and civil society institutions in the field of interethnic relations. In May 2007, a number of amendments were made to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Assembly of People of Kazakhstan was given a constitutional status, it received the right to elect nine deputies to the Mazhilis of the Parliament, which significantly increased the socio-political role of the APK. The legal status of the Assembly is determined by the special Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan", "Regulations on the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan". The supreme body of the Assembly is the session, which is chaired by the President of the country. All its decisions are mandatory for consideration by both State bodies and civil society institutions.

In November 2020, Maya Bekbaeva and Zakirzhan Kuziev were appointed deputy chairmen of the APK.