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On 12-13 April in Astana, Political Director of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Eitvydas Bajarūnas took part in political consultations between Lithuania and Kazakhstan, during which the director and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan discussed the most important issues related to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

E.Bajarūnas and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Konstantin Zhigalov, heads of the OSCE Department of the MFA Adil Tursynov and Serzhan Abdykarimov exchanged information on the important issues of the first one hundred days of Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship, discussed results of the most important visits of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev to protracted conflict zones and the cooperation in the Corfu Process of the OSCE.  Important issues of the EU-Kazakhstan relations were also discussed.

Issues related to Afghanistan were discussed during the meeting with Director of Asia and Africa Department of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rustem Kurmanguzhin.

In Astana, E.Bajarūnas also met with head of the Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan Hubert Petit and head of the OSCE Centre in Kazakhstan, Ambassador Alexandre Keltchewsky.

At the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Political Director of Lithuania’s MFA met with the director of the Academy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Tuleutay Suleymenov, lecturers and students, and gave a presentation.

Kazakhstan chairs the OSCE in 2010. Lithuania will hold the Chairmanship of this organization in 2011. Currently, these countries and former Greek Chairmanship of the OSCE comprise the so-called OSCE Troika.