Today in Almaty President Nursultan Nazarbayev Takes Part in the Informal Meeting of the OSCE Foreign Ministers.

It is one of the key events within the framework of Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship. The foreign ministers and high-level representatives from the 56 OSCE participating States, 11 country-partners on the OSCE cooperation and a number of international organizations gathered at the meeting.

A wide range of issues on strenghtening united, indivisible and universal security in the OSCE space, inluding participation of the Organization in stabilization efforts of the world community. In particular, the preliminary results of the European and Euarasian security dialogue within the "Corfy Process" launched at the informal meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers on the Greek island of Corfu in June 2009 were discussed at the meeting. A special emphasis was also laid on the possible topics for the forthcoming OSCE summit.

Addressing the participants of the meeting, the head of state emphasized that a hilg-level meeting would not only give an important impetus for the OSCE adjustment to modern challenges and threats but increase the influence of the Organization itself and strentehn its role in shaping the European and Eurasian architecture.

"The overwhelming majority of the OSCE participating States firmly back the idea on holding the high-level OSCE 2010 Summit in Astana. We should make most out of the forthcoming summit for the paving a way to achievement of the goal we envisaged for the Euro-Atlantic, Eurasian and the world community based on the mutual principles and values," Nursultan Nazarbayev highlighted.

The head of state stressed that the OSCE remains an actively developing body, closely woven into the life of the modern global political and economic system. Conducting an OSCE summit in 2010 will give a unique chance to demonstrate to the world community the evolution of the Organization "from Helsinki to Astana."