This morning, Mawlana Hazar Imam was received by His Excellency President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan at the Presidential Palace in Astana.
Mawlana Hazar Imam and President Nazarbayev discussed, amongst other things, the regional impact of the current global financial situation.
In his meetings with Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov, Foreign Minister Marat Tahzin and Education Minister Zhanseit Tuimebayev, Hazar Imam covered a range of topics pertaining to ongoing and future initiatives of the Aga Khan Development Network in the wider region. Addressing the press following his meetings, Mawlana Hazar Imam also noted that he had “come to Kazakhstan to monitor the situation relating to the development of the University of Central Asia” and to discuss “matters of cooperation here, in Kazakhstan and in the Central Asian region.”
Awarding Mawlana Hazar Imam the decoration “Honoured Educator of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” the Minister of Education and Science, Dr Zhanseit Tuimebayev recognised Hazar Imam’s services to Education.
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