Yacoub Yousef Al Hosani, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, MoFAIC, for International Organisations Affairs, yesterday attended a reception hosted by Kairat Lama Sharif, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE, on the occasion of his country's National Day.

The ceremony was attended by Darega Nazarbayev, Deputy Prime Minister and daughter of the Kazakhstan President, Shehab Ahmed Mohammed Al Fahim, Assistant Under-Secretary for Protocol Affairs at MoFAIC, a number of senior officials and heads of diplomatic missions of Arab and foreign countries accredited to the country, along with members of the Kazakh community living in the UAE.

In his speech during the ceremony, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan commended the strong bilateral relations between the UAE and his country, commending the wise leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.