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STATE NATIONAL POLICY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN (Aim: consolidation of society, unity and forming the civil identity)

ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN

(was established by the President’s Decree of 01.03.,1995,is led by the Head of state)

APK is the institute of harmonization of interethnic relations and public consent.

APK is the key instrument of the state national policy realization.

SESSION OF ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN

(Session is the highest leading body of the Assembly and called by the President of

the Republic of Kazakhstan)

COUNCIL OF ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN

(is fulfilled by the leaders of the Assemblyduring the period between the sessions)

KAZAKHSTAN MODEL of interethnic tolerance and public consent

Representation of APK in the supreme legislative

body – Parliament of Republic of Kazakhstan

(according to Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

Constitutional bases and standards in the sphere

of interethnic relations

Doctrine on the national unity of Kazakhstan

April 2010approved by President

of the Republic of Kazakhstan

the Law of Kazakhstan “About the Assembly

of people of Kazakhstan»of 20.10.2008.

Normative legal acts of Republic of Kazakhstan

in the sphere of interethnic relations, including

the international acts

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5 BASIC PRINCIPLESof the State National Policy:

I. Consolidating role of Kazakh ethnos.

II. Unity of Kazakhstan people.

III. Tolerance and responsibility.

IV. Creation of all the conditions for the development of culture and the languages of the national groups of Kazakhstan.

V. Ethnic, confessional, cultural and language variety.

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Constitutional bases and standards in the sphere of interethnic relations

(11 norms of Main Law regulate the sphere of interethnic relations)

THE PREAMBLE OF CONSTITUTION OF KAZAKHSTAN: We, the people of Kazakhstan, united by a common historic fate, creating a state on the indigenous Kazakh land, considering ourselves a peace-loving and civil society, dedicated to the ideals of freedom, equality and concord, wishing to take a worthy place in the world community, realizing our high responsibility before the present and future generations, proceeding from our sovereign right, accept this Constitution.

Article 1. 1. The Republic of Kazakhstan proclaims itself a democratic, secular, legal and social state whose highest values are an individual, his life, rights and freedoms.

Article 1. 2. The fundamental principles of the activity of the Republic are public concord and political stability; economic development for the benefit of all the nation; Kazakhstan patriotism and resolution of the most important issues of the affairs of state by democratic methods including voting at an all-nation referendum or in the Parliament.

Article 3. 1. The people shall be the only source of state power.

Article 5. 3. Formation and functioning of public associations pursuing the goals or actions directed toward a violent change of the constitutional system, violation of the integrity of the Republic, undermining the security of the state, inciting social, racial, national, religious, class and tribal enmity, as well as formation of unauthorized paramilitary units shall be prohibited.

Article 12.2. Human rights and freedoms shall belong to everyone by virtue of birth, be recognized as absolute and inalienable, and define the contents and implementation of laws and other regulatory legal acts.

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Constitutional bases and standards in the sphere of interethnic relations

(continuation)

Article 19.1. Everyone shall have the right to determine and indicate or not to indicate his national, party and religious affiliation.

Article 20. 3. Propaganda of or agitation for the forcible change of the constitutional system, violation of the integrity of the Republic, undermining of state security, and advocating war, social, racial, national, religious, class and clannish superiority as well as the cult of cruelty and violence shall not be allowed.

Article 22. 1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of conscience. 2. The right to freedom of conscience must not specify or limit universal human and civil rights and responsibilities before the state.

Article 39. 2. Any actions capable of upsetting interethnic concord shall be deemed unconstitutional.

Article 50. 2. … Fifteen deputies of Senate are appointed by the President of the Republic in accordance with the need to provide the representation of national and cultural and other significant society interests in Senate.

Article 51. 1. Elections of 98 deputies of the Majilis shall be carried out on the basis of the universal, equal and direct right under secret ballot. 9 deputies of Majilis are elected by the assembly of people of Kazakhstan…

Article 14. 2. No one shall be subject to any discrimination for reasons of origin, social, property status, occupation, sex, race, nationality, language, attitude towards religion, convictions, place of residence or any other circumstances.

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DOCTRINE ON THE NATIONAL UNITY OF KAZAKHSTANDOCTRINE ON THE NATIONAL UNITY OF KAZAKHSTAN (Approved by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Chairman of the APK N.A. Nazarbayev)

The Doctrine of the National Unity is the reason for people to understand the necessity to unite before time challenges.

It’s a way to realize what makes us closer and entire.It’s an impulse to a joint advance into future.

At the new stage of the development of the country the achievementof National Unity based on the recognition of the system of values and principlesfor all citizens is becoming a strategic priority.

Principles of Doctrine on the National Unity of Kazakhstan:І. «One country – one destiny»The awareness of every citizen that he and his Motherland, the Republic of Kazakhstan;ІІ. «Different origin – equal opportunities» The equality of opportunities for all the citizens despite their ethnic or another origin,confession or social status;ІІІ. «Development of national spirit»The headstone of our national unity and everyone’s vital principles must be independence maintenance, statehood strengthening, the equality of opportunities, the defense of rights and freedoms, the creation of intellectual nation and the development of national spirit.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan«About the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan» of October 20, 2008, №70-IV

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Consolidates the Assembly as the equal subject of the country political system, defines the normative law bases of its activity, regulates the interethnic relations, facilitates the state national policy realization.

The purpose of the Assembly is to provide the interethnic consent in the Republic of Kazakhstan inthe process of forming Kazakhstan civil identity and competitive nation on the basis of Kazakhstan patriotism, civil and spiritual and cultural unity of Kazakhstan under the consolidating role of Kazakh people.

The main tasks of the Assembly are:1) supply of the effective interaction between state bodies and the institutes of civil society in the sphere of interethnic relations, providing the favourable conditions for the further consolidating of interethnic consent and tolerance in the society;2) consolidating the people unity, the support and development of social consensus according the basic values of Kazakhstan society;3) assisting the state bodies in counteracting the extremism and radicalism manifestations in the society, aimed to restrict the human rights;4) forming the citizens political and legal culture, based on democratic norms;5) providing the integrity of the efforts of the ethnic and cultural and other public formations to achieve the Assembly aims and tasks;6) revival, storing and development of national cultures, languages and traditions of the people of Kazakhstan.

The principles of Assembly activity are: 1) the priority of human and civil rights; 2) the priority of the interests of people and state; 3) the equality of human and civil rights without depending on race, nationality, language, attitude to the religion, views or any other circumstances; 4) the equal rights and personal responsibility of the Assembly members for the activity in it; 5) publicity.

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Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan«About the public formations» of May, 31, 1996 N 3

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan«About the languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan»

of July,11,1997 N 151

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan»

of October, 20, 2008, N 70-IV

Constitutional law of the Republic of Kazakhstan«About elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan»

of September, 28, 1995, N 2464 (with the changes of June 19,2007)

Normative law acts of the Republic of Kazakhstanin the sphere of the interethnic relations

Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstanis adopted at the republican referendum of August 30,1995.

The Republic of Kazakhstanratified 160 fundamentalinternational normative legal actsin the sphere of human rights. Legislation of Republicof Kazakhstan answers to the principles of Main International documentsin the sphere of internationaldocuments in the sphere ofproviding the ethnic rights ofthe citizens: Copenhagenconference on the humanmeasuring of 1992; Haguerecommendations aboutthe national minorities rights in the sphere of education of 1996, Oslo recommendations aboutthe national minorities of 1998,Lund recommendations aboutthe effective participation ofthe national minorities in the social and political life of 1999, the Recommendations on the languages using of the national minorities In broadcasting of 2003.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About state social order» of April,12,2005 N 36

«Conception of development of the civil society of 2006-2011» confirmed by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

of June 25, 2006, № 154

THE MAIN TENDENCES of APK activity in the interethnic sphere

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The consolidation of the social stability as the basis of society integrity.

The overall development of Kazakhstan people’s cultures, languages and traditions.

Forming Kazakhstan identity in the way of Kazakhstan people consolidation with the basic roleof the state language and culture of Kazakh people.

The effective interaction of the state bodies and the institutes of the civil society in the sphere of interethnic relations.

Forming the system of mechanisms on preventing the negative tendencies in the sphere of interethnic relations and the possible threats neutralization, and ethnic factor politicization.

The support of compatriots, living abroad in the matters of keeping and development ofthe native language, culture and traditions.

Broadening of the integral relations with the international organizations and the institutesof the civil society of the foreign countries.

Improving the activity of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan on the realization of statenational policy and rising its role in the democratization of the political system.

The development of the system of educating Kazakhstan patriotism and the work with the youth.

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THE PECULIARITIES OF KAZAKHSTAN MODELOF THE INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE

(from the speech of the President of the republic of Kazakhstan at ХIV session of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan,

October 23, 2008. «The country power is in the people’s unity»)

First. Kazakhstan model was initially built «from below» on the basis of the national groups’ public organizations, constructive creative interactionInstitutes of the civil society, represented by ethnic and cultural formations and the state.

Second. All the ethnic groups have the extremely high civil and legal and social status. Their representatives come not as the national minorities, but as possessing the complete rights. The citizens of the unified people of Kazakhstan.

Third. The chairmanship and political realization of the interests of Kazakhstan national groupsis fulfilled on the high state level. The chairman of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan isthe President of Kazakhstan himself, guarantor of Constitution, and this defines the high status of the Assembly. The decisions of its high body, the annual session, are fulfilled by all state bodies. In the intervals between the sessions the work of the constant working body of the Assembly Council is often led by the State secretary.

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THE PECULIARITIES OF KAZAKHSTAN MODELOF THE INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE

(continuation)

Fourth. The interests of the ethnic groups are supplied through the parliament guaranty representation of the Assembly. As the result, 9 deputies of Majilis, elected from the Assembly, present her interests, as the aggregate interests of all the national groups of the country.

Fifth. In Kazakhstan model the consolidating principle “Unity through the variety” is founded. The aimed policy of the state on the ethnic languages and cultures support facilitatesthe storage and multiplication of cultural variety.

Sixth. Interethnic relations in Kazakhstan are principally depoliticized.According to the Article 5 of Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About the political parties» the creation and activity of the political parties, the aims and actions of which are directed forthe social, racial, national, religious, noble and tribal differences, is prohibited. The creationof the parties according to the racial, ethnic and religious qualities is not accepted. Point 2 of Article 39 of Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan defines that “any actions,which can destroy international consent are accepted as unconstitutional”.

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THE PECULIARITIES OF KAZAKHSTAN MODELOF THE INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE

(continuation)

The first stage covers the period between 1989-1995. is characterized from the beginning ofthe ethnic and cultural formations creation till the beginning of the institutional designing ofKazakhstan model as the result of adopting the Constitution of 1995 and the creation ofthe Assembly of people of Kazakhstan.

The second stage – 1995-2002. The parameters of Kazakhstan identity were defined.On the basis of the Conception of forming the State identity of the Republic of Kazakhstanthe consolidation of Kazakhstan society around Kazakh people is provided. The principalConsensus relating the refusing the political ethnic and confessional relations is achieved.

The third stage – 2002-2007 includes the policy on Kazakhstan interethnic tolerance forming.The number of program documents – the Strategy of the Assembly of people of KazakhstanTill 2011, State Program of languages development and functioning, Conception “The idealConsolidation of society as the condition of Kazakhstan progress” were elaborated and adopted. During 2006-2008 the Program of improving Kazakhstan model of interethnic andInter-confessional consent was realized.

The forth stage has started in 2007 is characterized by the integrity of Kazakhstan society intothe unified people, the transformation of state national policy to the policy of forming nationalunity of people of Kazakhstan, the public consent, keeping independence and statehood.

THE STAGES OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENTof the interethnic tolerance model:

The representation of the assembly of people of Kazakhstanin the supreme legislative and local state organs of the authorities

(the reject to practice quoting the parliament representation according to the ethnic features is the main characteristics for Kazakhstan)

The deputies of APK represent their interests as the aggregate interests of all the national groups of the

country

Article 51. 1. Elections of 98 deputies of the Majilis shall be carried out on the basis of the universal, equal and direct right under secret ballot. 9 deputies of Majilis are elected by the assembly of people of Kazakhstan…

Article 50. 2. … Fifteen deputies of Senate are appointed by the President of the Republic in accordance with the need to provide the representation of national and cultural and other significant society interests in Senate.

Constitutional law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its deputies status»Article 24. 4. The authorities of the deputies of Majilis of Parliament (note - from APK) can be stopped in advance after APK decision.

Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About the elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan»Article 87. 1. The right of the candidates’ promotion into Majilis deputies ... Referring the candidates into Majilis deputies, elected by the assembly of people of Kazakhstan, to the Assembly Council.

In the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan the deputy group “New Kazakhstan” is created and functions effectively. The elaboration of 2 bills is initiated, the leaders of the working

groups took part in the preparation of 13 laws, the members of the working groups prepared

160 laws. During the bills discussion more than precise proposals were offered. 68 inquires from

the APK deputies were sent to the Prime-Minister and Parliament members’ address.

The representation of Kazakhstan national groups is fulfilled on the basis of their direct

participation in the representative bodies through the political parties. Majilis of

Parliament is represented by 26 deputies, and Senate is represented by 9 deputies.

In Maslikhats of all the levels 31 national groups are represented by 810 deputies

(totaling 3333), among them 147 regional ones (totaling 550), 233 urban ones (totaling 624),

430 district ones (totaling 2159).

SESSION of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan

(is the supreme leading body, is called and held under the chair of the Head of the Country)

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Elects nine deputies of Majilis of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

ETHNIC STAFF OF APK:Among 382 members: Kazakhs – 90, Russians – 61, Uzbeks – 10, Ukrainians – 17, Uyghurs - 15,

Tatars – 19, Germans – 19, Koreans – 21, Azerbaijanians - 17, other people are represented by 120 members of APK.

The Decision of Session is stated by the Assembly chairman. The recommendations and propositions on the state national policy

which are kept in the Session decisions are necessary for compulsory consideration by the state bodies

Produces the conceptual approaches in the defining The Assembly Strategy for the middle term prospect

Before the Session the Ministers and the heads of the republican departments meet the members of APK for discussing the practical questions

in the sphere of the interethnic relations

Elects two deputies of the Chairman of the Assembly fromthe ethnic and cultural formations (with the annual rotation)

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At 15 past sessions of APK the key questionsin the sphere of the interethnic relations were considered:

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Among the main questions, considered at the sessions there are: the Strategy of formation and development of Kazakhstan as sovereign state; the Strategy of forming the common national consent; the Strategy of development «Kazakhstan – 2030»; the Strategy of Assembly of people of Kazakhstan (till 2011); Forming the civil identity; Program «Cultural heritage»; constitutional status of the Assembly, its parliament representation; Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «About the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan».

Realization of the orders of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the chairman of the APK, given at Session XV of

October, 26, 2009:

1. Finishing the project of Doctrine of the national unity is going on with the help of direct participation of APK. The main points of the Doctrine are included into the Strategy of development of Kazakhstan till 2020.

2. The elaboration of new State program of the languages functioning and development for the years of 2011 – 2020.

3. The work on creating the Club of the leading journalists-experts on the questions of the interethnic relations under the APK is going on.

4. The question of creating the Agency on the religious matters is being elaborated.5. Under the APK «Ақсақалдар алқасы» (the Council of the elders) is being created 6. The measures on financing in the frame of state social order of the projects of ECF in the sphere of

the interethnic consent provision were taken.7. The preparation for the IV kurultay of the World association of Kazakhs is being held.8. The system of ECF and NGF is being widened. These formations deal with teaching population

Kazakh.9. The work on consolidating the whole infra-structure of the APK is being held.10. The work on further modernization of the APK activity is being defined

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The infrastructure ofthe Assembly of people of Kazakhstan.

Cultural and art establishments:- National theatres: 14 Russian theatres, Uyghur, Korean and German (the only in CIS), Uzbek theatre is financed from the republican budget means;- ethnic oriented museums and the exhibitions halls.

195 ethnic and educational complexes, Sunday and linguistic schools function .

Ethnic and cultural mass media:- 35 ethnic newspapers and journals issued in 11 languages (4 republican newspapers of the national groups are financed from the republican budget in the frames of state social order);- teleprograms (in 7 languages);- radioprograms (in 8 languages).The total circulation of mass media are on the national groups’ languages, without any account of the Kazakhs and Russians, is more than 80 thousand units.

More than 800 ethnic and cultural formations of all the levels work, among them there are 28 republican ones, мore than 46 ethnic groups have their own ethnic and cultural formations.

The development of the national groups’ languages:- the languages of 22 national groups are taught in 108 schools of Kazakhstan as the individual subject.In 88 schools the teaching is led in Uzbek, Tadjik, Uyghur and Ukrainian languages.

The Friendship Houses function in the regions, The Palace of Peace and Consent functions in Astana,“The House of Friendship, the Centre on the research of the problems in the interethnic relations” worksin Almaty.

COUNCIL of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan

(is held with the participation of State Secretary of Kazakhstan is called by Council Chairman

and the Chairman deputies of APK not less than once a year)

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Council considers the actual problems in the sphere of interethnic relations,connected with the further activity of APK and

recommends them for the consideration at session.

ETHNIC STUFF OF THE ASSEMBLY COUNCIL:30 of 58 members are the representatives of the different national groups

The competence of APK Council includes:- The promotion of the candidates into the deputies of Majilis, elected by the Assembly;- The consideration of the candidates of the Assembly members;- Adding some proposals about the calling and agenda of the next Assembly Session to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the consideration;- Adding some proposals into the plan of the Assembly Secretariat work;- Accepting the other decisions, which do not refer to the excluding competence of the Assembly Session.

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ASSEMBLIESof the regions, Almaty and Astana cities

The chairmen are the regions akims(while fulfilling their activities the assemblies of the regions are responsible before

the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan)

SECRETARIAT OF THE ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTANis headed by the chairman deputy of APK

(is the working body of APK in the structure of the Administration of the Presidentof the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan

«About the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan»)

SECRETARIATS of the regions Assemblies, Almaty and Astana cities

are headed by the deputies of APK regions(are the working organs of APK in the structure

of the apparatus of the regions akims,Almaty and Astana cities)

COUNCILSof the regions assemblies, Almaty and Astana cities

(are the collegial bodies, fulfilling the management between the sessions)

SESSIONS of the regions assemblies, Almaty and Astana cities

(are the supreme head organs of APK regions)

Funds of the APKScientific and expert

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Regional Ethnic and

cultural formations

The Infrastructureof the APK regions

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Scientific and expert council under the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan

(is created on the order of the President of people of Kazakhstan, the Chairman of the as the consultative and analytical body, stuff and the position of scientific

and expert council are approved by the APK council on 29.01.2009.)

Sectorof Monitoringand analysis

Sector of the social

dialogue

Sector of expert evaluation

Experts in the sphere of interethnic tolerance,

Including the foreign ones

The group of the scientists, the representatives

of ethnic and cultural formations

The resource basis of the scientific expert council (consultative and analytical body under APK)is represented by: the scientific and technical, intellectual and trained bases

of the scientific and expert council members. The resource base of the SEC (consultative and analytical body under the APK)is the scientific and technical, intellectual and stuff base of its members.

The scientific and expert groups are created in the regions.

Consultative and public structures of APK

The main tasks:- complex expert evaluation of the tendencies of ethnic and political, social and economic and confessional development in the Republic of Kazakhstan, forecasting the development of the data of the processes in the country and the world;- the assistance to the intensification of the role of the APK as political and civil institute in the development of democracy, the consolidation of Kazakhstan society unity, the common national consent achieving;- the scientific expert Assembly activity accompanying on actual dimensions of ethnic policy;- coordination of scientific and research works in the sphere of interethnic and inter-confessional relations.

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AIMS: - financial and material provision of APK and regions assemblies activity;- assisting to ethnic and cultural formations;- using the investments, financial and technical aid of Kazakhstan, foreign and international organizations and the citizens for the fulfilling the tasks of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan; -fulfilling the cooperation with the citizens and organizations in the sphere of interethnic relations.

THE PUBLIC FUND«FUND OF THE ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN»

(is created upon the order of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Chairman of APK, is registered in the Justice organs on 12.02.2009, №33105-1901

The Fund Founders are the Republican ethnic and cultural formations).

“The Corporate Fund of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan”, Fund “Ethnos-Forum”,corporate funds under APK regions are created and developed.

Fund was created for financial provision of the Assembly activity in the sphere ofinterethnic consent consolidation.

MISSION: the fulfillment of the cultural and educational, spiritual and moral,charitable,or other socially useful activity in accord with the aim and tasks of APK.

Consultative and public structures of APK

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INTERACTION AND COOPERATIONof APK and HCNM of OSCE

Realized projects:- assisting polylingual education;- training civil workers to acquire the questions of the management of interethnic relations;- systematized monitoring of the interethnic relations.

The proposals on cooperation development:1. Mutual change and translation of Kazakhstan experience of interethnic tolerance into Europe for using at OSCE area while settling interethnic conflicts.

2. To prepare and spread the presentation of Kazakhstan modelof interethnic tolerance in the states-participants of OSCE.

3. To continue the development the system of conferring and consultative bodies in Kazakhstan and the states-participants of OSCE with the participation of the national groups’ representatives with the experts’ inclusion in the sphere of the interethnic relations.

4. To use APK and HCNM OSCE as the dialogue board for discussing the questions of the effective participation of the national groups in the social and political life and taking decisions.

5. To consider the possibility to create joint structures for deep scientificand expert research of interethnic relations sphere.

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The Interaction and cooperation of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan with the state, scientific and public structures of the Russian Federation

The projects, being realized:- the agreements of cooperation between SEC under APK and IAC MSU, between SEC under APK and the department of History of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University were signed;- the journal “EuroAsia” was issued;- the special course “Kazakhstan Model of interethnic tolerance at the department of History of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University” (36 hours) for the students of the higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation was introduced;- the Agreements and Assemblies of people of Russia and Tatarstan are signed.

The proposals on the short-term prospect humanitarian cooperation development:- development of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the deputies of Majilis of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan from APK and deputies of State Duma (Committee on the CIS affairs and the links with the compatriots, Committee on the national affairs);- consolidation of cooperation between the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan and Interstate fund of humanitarian cooperation of CIS state-participants;- development of bounder cooperation with the assemblies and diasporas, promoting integration and widening of the area of civil society formation;The proposals on the further development of humanitarian cooperation:-Holding the joint scientific research in the sphere of interethnic relations and interconfessional tolerance; -Publishing the scientific research in the sphere of intercultural dialogue and interethnic tolerance in the scientific journals and publications;- access to the data bases and electronic catalogues of the members of the scientific experts and the student youth, dealing with the problems of interethnic relations;-Interaction in the high qualified stuff training for the work and management in the sphere of interethnic relations;- the joint issue of the textbooks and manuals.

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PROSPECTS of the international cooperation of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan

Development of the set contacts with the scientists and institutes of Development of the set contacts with the scientists and institutes of foreign statesforeign states::

1. International fund of F. Ebert, Germany in the sphere of language policy and ethnic and cultural education.

2. Turkey, the institute of Eurasia of Istanbul University in the sphere of Diaspora policy.

3. The republic of Belarus with the Plenipotentiary on the religious and national affairs.

4. The Republic of Latvia in the framework of the project “the connecting thread of the fates”.

5. The Republic of Tajikistan on development of cooperation in the sphere of interethnic relations.

6. With the scientists of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the sphere of archive and museum materials researches.