DS9 Document EFTA01110832

IPI INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE H.E. Yerzhan Kazykhanov Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tauyelsyzdyk Street, 31 Left Bank of Essil River Astana 010000 Kazakhstan Vienna, September 4, 2012 Dear . M1ainister, Please find attached the final report for the IPI project supporting the Republic of Kazakhstan's Chairmanship of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC). I appreciate the outstanding cooperation that we have enjoyed during your leadership of the OIC which builds on the good partnership that we had at the end of 2010 in support of Kazakshstan's Chairmanship of the OSCE, including the drafting of the Astana Declaration. Your Chairmanship of the OIC took place at a dramatic time of transition for the OIC and for the Muslim Ummah, not least in North Africa and the Middle East. Among the more than one hundred taskings that we delivered over the course of the contract (see the annex of the report), we are particularly proud to have supported your outstanding Chairmanship of the 381h Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Astana last June, we are glad to have been able to provide advice on fast-breaking developments in North Africa and the Middle East, and to generate ideas for the evolution of KazAid. None of this would have been possible without your energetic, wise, and even-handed leadership that has managed to carefully steer the OIC through troubled waters, and, as a result, has raised its relevance and profile as well as that of you and your remarkable country. We look forward to further cooperation with Kazakhstan, in line with our Memorandum of Understanding, including to strengthen the effectiveness of CICA and to assist you in your bid for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council. I look forward to further strengthening our partnership in the years ahead. Sincerely, vi rye Red-Larse President VIENNA: Freyung 3. 1010 Vienna. AUSTRIA m. NEW YORK: 777 United Nations Plaza, New York. NY 10017 USA www.ipinst.org TEL EFTA01110832