Kazakhstan to host Turkic parliamentary assembly session this month

By Meiramgul Kussaiova

NUR SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan will host the next plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic Speaking Countries (TURKPA) later this month.

The 10th plenary session will take place in Turkistan, Kazakhstan on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, according to a TURKPA statement.

Nurlan Nigmatulin, speaker of Kazakhstan’s Parliament, met TURKPA Secretary General Altynbek Mamaiusupov to discuss preparations for the upcoming event.

The session, which will be attended by the parliamentary speakers of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, provides an “opportunity to take stock of the work carried out over the past years and discuss the promising areas of further cooperation,” the statement added.

The speaker of Uzbekistan’s parliament has also been invited to the event.

* Writing by Ahmet Gencturk