Kazakh Ambassador to US paid a visit to Utah
On 15-17 January 2020, Kazakh Ambassador to the United States Yerzhan Kazykhanov paid a working visit to Utah, during which he met with Governor Gary Herbert, President of Brigham Young University Kevin J Worthen, World Trade Center Utah President Miles Hansen, as well as with representatives of local U.S. companies, the Kazakh foreign ministry’s press service informs.
At a meeting with the Utah Governor, the development of bilateral relations, as well as promising areas of cooperation with Utah State was discussed.
The ambassador also met with the First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to share information on the work carried out by Kazakhstan to strengthen interreligious and interfaith dialogue and the country's efforts in peacekeeping, humanitarian projects, and the maintenance of regional and international security.
The U.S. side expressed readiness to consider the possibility of participation of the Church’s representatives in the upcoming the 7th Congress in 2021.
In an effort to establish contacts with the State’s companies, at a meeting with the president of the World Trade Center Utah prospects for cooperation in developing the tourism industry and promoting the export of domestic goods to the U.S. market were discussed.
The Kazakh diplomat also visited Brigham Young University, where he delivered a lecture entitled “Kazakhstan and the United States in 2020: A New Decade of Partnership” and answered questions of interest to the audience.
As part of the development of cultural and humanitarian relations between the two countries, as well as on the occasion of the celebration of the 175th anniversary of Abai Qunanbaiuly and the 1150th anniversary of al-Farabi, the Kazakh ambassador presented the University’s president with a two-volume anthology of Kazakh literature and commemorative coins of al-Farabi.
Brigham Young University is one of the largest religious universities in the United States with more than 32,000 students. In 2019, the University took the first spot in the Forbes and The Wall Street Journal rankings in terms of price and quality of education.
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the main branch of the Latter-day Saints Restoration Christianity movement, created by religious figure Joseph Smith Jr. in Upstate New York in the 1920s.
