Kazakh Honor Consulate opened in Melbourne

8 August, 2014 09:16

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Singapore and Australia combined duties Yerlan Kozhatayev and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australian Parliament Bronwyn Bishop opened the honor Consulate of Kazakhstan in Melbourne, the press service of the foreign authority reports.

The Kazakh Ambassador handed in honorary consul's letters patent to Australian businessman Andrew Fernyhough who is a founder of the Kazakh community of Australia and President of the Kazakh-Austraian Chmaber of Commerce and Industry.

Speaking on behalf of federal Government of Australia, Madam Speaker Bronwyn Bishop said the opening of the Consulate is an important stage in bilateral cooperation expansion, given the similarity of the national economies’ structures where extractive and agricultural industries prevail.

According to her , Kazakhstan is a poster child for the rest world as a country which gave up its nuclear weapon voluntarily and develops atom for peace and formed a society of interethnic and interreligious harmony.

In her speech, the speaker of the Federal Assembly K. Fife on behalf of Government of Victoria state expressed confidence the honor consulate will activate trade–economic cooperation. “I will recommend interparliamentary friendship league with Kazakhstan,” she announced.

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