Master students of Al-Farabi KazNU took part in a Round Table on the UN Model in the United States. The event on the outcome of Kazakhstan’s activities in the UN Security Council was organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations in New York, jointly with the Ban Ki-moon Institute for Sustainable Development at KazNU and the University’s Youth Organization «Model UN - New Silk Road»

The roundtable participants discussed such topical issues for the international community as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the problem of resolving the Syrian crisis in the context of the Astana process, the development of the situation in Afghanistan, etc. The Master students of a leading University in Kazakhstan made presentations on these topics, answered questions and took part in the discussion. During the debate, students exchanged views and shared their vision of solving these pressing problems.

Opening the meeting, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, Kairat Umarov, spoke about the specifics of the activities of the Security Council and the main achievements of Kazakhstan as a non-permanent member of the main UN body. He has highlighted that over the 2 years of stay in the UN Security Council, the representatives of our state took part in more than a thousand UN Security Council meetings at various levels.

«Achievements during the work of Kazakhstan in the UN Security Council became possible largely due to the widely known, landmark initiatives of the Head of our state in the anti-war, anti-nuclear and anti-terrorism spheres. We have deserved the high appreciation of the members of the Council for our principled and balanced position on many of the most acute problems of the modern world and were able to strengthen the country's authority in the international arena», - noted Kairat Umarov.

He also shared with Kazakh students his personal experience of two-year work in the UN Security Council. He told in detail about how the first trip of the Council members to Afghanistan in the last seven years was organized, and the specifics of activity as the Chairman of several Sanctions Committees of the UN Security Council.

He spoke about the approaches of Kazakhstan to solving many of the most complicated international problems in the context of growing tensions and lack of trust in relations between the leading world powers as well.

The discussions of the UN Model was also participated by Director of the MDP «Global Classroom» of KazNU Professor Rafis Abazov, representative of the Department of Public Information of the UN Secretariat Matthew Pampin, and the Master students of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Faculty of Journalism, and the Higher School of Economics and Business, who have been studying within the academic exchange program at Columbia University.