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74) Kazakhstan as the successful experience of multiethnic state.

Kazakhstan has good chances to build a successful multi-ethnic state in the Central Asia, OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Knut Vollebaek said.

"The authorities and people are very much aware of the complexity of those issues and they devote a lot of attention to minority matter unlike many other countries," Vollebaek said in his interview with Trend News.

He said Kazakhstan has tried a number of innovative approaches, like multilingualism, the Assembly of People and searching for ways in which minorities could be represented in the policy making.

Kazakhstan's Assembly of People is an institute to promote inter-ethnic and inter-faith consent. It contributes to formation of Kazakh model of poly-ethnic society.

Priority directions of the Assembly of Peoples, which marked 15th anniversary in May, is to strengthen statehood, protect human rights and freedoms of the people and the state and to shift to a qualitatively new level of development that meets the requirements of a civilized world community.Kazakhstan has an official bilingualism: Kazak and Russian languages. Many of those attempts have to be evaluated after some time, Vollebaek said. "This is very important as minority issues are not static but they evolve with time," he said. I think the country will greatly contribute to discussions in the OSCE family about issues that concern integration and tolerance which are of utmost importance not only for Kazakhstan but for the whole world, Vollebaek said. Kazakhstan can still improve some legislation and should reassure minorities that no changes implemented over night, he said. Kazakhstan is home to about 120 ethnic groups and nationalities, principal among which are Uighurs, Russian, Uzbeks, Tatars, Germans, Koreans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Azerbaijanis, Chechens and Ingush, Poles, Turks, Armenians, Greeks and Kurds.

"Year 2010 will be a fascinating year and it will be very interesting to follow

the decisions and deliberations that Kazakhstan will bring to our Organization to solidifying and fostering OSCE principles," Vollebaek said.

According to the 1999 estimate of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics, almost 15 million people representing 120 ethnic groups lived in the country. Among them were nearly 8 million Kazakhs, more than 4 million Slavic and non-Slavic Russians, 547,000 Ukrainians, 353,000 Germans, and 249,000 Tatars, and 1 million people belonging to other ethnic minorities. The population of the country has a high percentage of people with bi-ethnic and multi-ethnic backgrounds.

75) The role and functions of the Assembly of Kazakhstan people.

The Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan It is founded under the Decree of the President of the RK on March 1, 1995. It is a consultative – advising body under the RK President. The Assembly decisions bear recommendation nature.

RK President is the Chairman of the Assembly. The Chairman has 2 Deputies appointed by the RK President by the proposal of Assembly members.

The Assembly activity is directed to the solution of the tasks given below:

• to promote the maintenance of interethnic concord and social stability;

• to work out proposals over the state policy, making for the development of friendly relations between peoples residing on the RK territory, to promote their cultural and spiritual revival and development on the basis of observance to principles of equality;

• formation of the public political culture, resting on civilized and democratic standards;

• to provide for consideration of multilateral ethnic interests within the national policy held by the State;

• to search for compromises to settle the social conflicts arising in the society.

The Assembly is shaped by the RK President out of the representatives of National Cultural Centers, Veterans’ Councils, and any other entities given their trustworthiness among the public , social activity, practical expertise.

Small Assemblies:

• act as consultative-advising bodies under heads of the regional administrations;

• are created in all regions out of representatives of National Cultural Centers, Veterans’ Councils, regional administrations and Maslikhats;

• are chaired by the heads of regional administrations who approve their staff.

To hold activities in-between sessions the Assembly Council out of the representatives of National Cultural Centers, Veterans’ Councils, heads of Small Assemblies and any other entities entering the Assembly is convened. The Assembly Council headed by Deputies Chairman of the Assembly directs the activities of the Assembly Executive Secretariat.

The decision on restructuring or termination of the Assembly activities is made by the RK President on his own initiative or on the proposal of not less than 2/3 Assembly members.

The first session of the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan took place on March 24, 1995 in Almaty. See: Report of N.Nazarbayev "For Peace and Accord in Our Common Home" on the first session of the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan.

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