K. Abdrakhmanov received Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia

Issues of coordination of activities on topical issues of international security were discussed during the meeting of Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov.

As K. Abdrakhmanov noted, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan starts to develop thoroughly and implement new initiatives of President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the field of nuclear safety, voiced at the inauguration of the facility of the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank on August 29.

In turn, S. Ryabkov described the speech of the Kazakh leader at the opening of the LEU Bank as a “Peace Program.” The Russian diplomat said that Russia will carefully study that document and promote its implementation.

During the meeting, the trajectory for interaction within the framework of the UN Security Council, as well as the preparation for Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the Council in January 2018, were discussed. The prospects for international efforts to resolve the situation in Syria within the framework of the Astana Process, the situation of the nuclear missile program of North Korea, the stabilization of Afghanistan, and cooperation in the field of cybersecurity were discussed.