The Astana International Forum (AIF) kicks off today at the Kazakh capital. The high-level event under the theme Tackling Challenges Through Dialogue: Towards Cooperation, Development & Progress includes keynote speeches, discussions, and side events, covering issues related to the economy, energy, climate, and regional cooperation and development.
The event is chaired by the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and is designed to unite the efforts of the world community to find consolidated responses to the unprecedented challenges associated with growing geopolitical tensions and a radical transformation of traditional models of interstate cooperation.
The Forum is attended by heads of state and government, heads of international organizations and major companies, politicians and representatives of expert circles.
More than 300 foreign delegates, including the heads of the IMF, WTO, ADB, EBRD, OSCE, UNESCO, SCO, OSCE PA, representatives of the OECD and the US Trade Mission, as well as members of the Foreign Investors Council, will consider models of interstate cooperation and formation of new global partnerships.
Among the guests of honor of the Forum:
The Astana International Forum invites all interested parties to join a closer dialogue, to jointly come to clear and effective solutions to global problems in four key areas:
– Foreign policy and international security
– International development and sustainability
– Energy and climate change
– Economics and finance.
These areas form the basis of the program, which includes more than 40 panel sessions, informal discussions and other extracurricular activities.
Strategic partners of the Forum: UN and CNN.
The UN is supporting the event by providing high-level speakers and coordinating the participation of several UN agencies.
CNN is involved as a strategic media partner.
Organizing Committee
Astana International Forum
