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Chairman of the World Jewish Congress Israel Singer has come to Kazakhstan on
an official visit. He was invited by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev
and the President of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Alexander Mashkevitch.
Israel Singer is one of the most famous public figures advocating
peace and solidarity. In the course of reception at Nursultan Nazarbaev's, the
participants discussed the realization of the President's initiatives aimed
at development of a dialogue between peoples and religions. Then Israel Singer
and Nursultan Nazarbaev touched upon a subject of preparations to the Second
Conference on Peace and Accord planned for December 2003 in Istanbul.
 "Nursultan
Nazarbaev has always been an initiator of establishing friendly relations between
countries that can not find common language." Israel Singer said after
the reception at the President's. "World Jewish Congress completely
supports the initiatives of the President of Kazakhstan".
 In
the course of the meeting Nursultan Nazarbaev and Israel Singer discussed the
Conference of representatives of world religions planned for the autumn. It
will be held in Kazakhstan. In this connection the Chairman of WJC said that
he had participated in such conference before and he shared the President's
confidence in its necessity.
After the reception, Israel Singer met the head of interreligious
relations staff Nurtay Abykaev, the leaders of Parliament, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Ministry of economy and budget planning, as well as the chief mufti
of Kazakhstan Absattar kazhi Derbisali and EAJC leader Alexander Mashkevitch.
Earlier the Chairman of WJC appeared before the representatives of the Jewish
community.
(www.mitsva.kz)
Photos by Vladimir Semchuk
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