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Talk of The Week: Embassy of Kazakhstan launches friendship club
JP/Veeramalla AnjaiahThe Embassy of Kazakhstan in Jakarta launched the Indonesia-Kazakhstan Friendship Club (IKFC) in Jakarta on Wednesday to foster friendly ties between the two countries
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The Embassy of Kazakhstan in Jakarta launched the Indonesia-Kazakhstan Friendship Club (IKFC) in Jakarta on Wednesday to foster friendly ties between the two countries.
“The objectives of the IKFC are to contribute to the strengthening of friendly and mutually beneficial bilateral relations and partnerships between Indonesia and Kazakhstan, in particular to promote trade, economic, investment, tourism, social and cultural cooperation,” Kazakh Ambassador to Indonesia Askhat Orazbay told The Jakarta Post during the launching of the club in Jakarta.
“This new club will also promote people-to-people contacts”.
The club, according to Ambassador Orazbay, will work under the guidance of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Indonesia.
The members, who come from government agencies, business groups, media, non-government organizations and the Kazakh community in Indonesia, unanimously elected Foster Gultom — the former Indonesian ambassador to Kazakhstan — as the co-chair of the club. Orazbay is the other co-chair of IKFC.
Relations between Indonesia and Kazakhstan have been growing by leaps and bounds since their establishment in 1993.
Recently, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla visited Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to attend the First Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Science and Technology.
During his five-day visit from Sept. 8-12 to Kazakhstan, Kalla held bilateral meetings with Kazakh leaders like President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev and Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and discussed the entire gamut of bilateral relations with them.
