Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko held a briefing for the attendees of the United Kingdom’s Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), DKNews.kz reports.
RCDS is the United Kingdom’s Defence Academy college dedicated to training senior officers and officials from the UK and other countries.
The group that arrived to Kazakhstan as part of the Global Strategy Programme course included representatives from Australia, Chile, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nepal, New Zealand, Qatar, Romania, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries.
The participants of the briefing were informed about the key concepts of Kazakhstan’s balanced multi-vector foreign policy. Deputy Minister Vassilenko spoke in detail about Kazakhstan’s cooperation with Central Asia countries, Russia, China, the US, the countries of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and others.
The briefing also focused on the issues of cooperation of Kazakhstan in a multilateral format, including within the UN and the OSCE, as well as on Astana’s international initiatives, aimed at strengthening security and sustainable development at the regional and global levels, such as the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia and the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.
The RCDS delegation expressed its gratitude for the information and noted the growing importance of Kazakhstan both in Central Asia and on the global arena.
