DELEGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE BECOMES
KAZAKHSTAN ATTENDANCE








PARIS, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Leonid
Kokowitsch /. a delegation of the parliament meeting of the Council of
Europe (PACE) will be from 5. to 7 March to a work attendance in
Kazakhstan.  This attendance will in the context of the preparation of
an official report by the commission for political questions of the
PACE regarding the request of the parliament of Kazakhstan to grant to
the republic the status of an official observer in the PACE and the
Council of Europe.

The delegation will visit Alma Ata and Astana.  Meetings and
negotiations with the chairmen of the upper and of the House of
Commons of the kasachischen parliament, with the minister of foreign
affairs of the republic and top representatives of different political
parties are planned.

The request of Kazakhstan to grant to the republic the status of the
official observer in the PACE and the Council of Europe had been
brought by the kasachischen page of the guidance of the Council of
Europe in January previous yearly in Strasbourg.