Kazakhstan suggests holding OSCE summit from October 29-30.

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ALMATY, July 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Kazakhstan believes acceptable dates to
hold an OSCE summit are October 29 and 30, Kazakh State Secretary and
Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev told the informal OSCE foreign minister
meeting in Astana. "We propose to hold the summit on October 29-30. We
think these are acceptable dates," he said.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev noted when opening the informal
meeting on Saturday that the holding of the OSCE summit in Astana later
this year would help prove that the organization remained an active and
developing structure.
"In our time there are cataclysms revealing vulnerable places in
security of the transcontinental space," he noted.
"Within the organization we must outline ways to overcome problems in
the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian spaces," he said.
"Otherwise, ideas that are far from being constructive could come to
the foreground," the Kazakh president noted, numbering extremism and crime
among them.
In his view, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
should pay much attention to economy, ecology and ethnic and religious
tolerance. The organization could sign a common document "The OSCE -
towards Tolerance in the New Ten Years," he believes.
"All these themes should be in the focus of attention of the OSCE
summit in Astana at the end of this year."
"A top-level organization summit not held since 1999 could prove the
OSCE remains an active and developing structure," Nazarbayev said.
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