Webinar Kazakhstan - the country of friendship

April 29, 2021 on the eve of May 1 - Day of Kazakhstan`s people unity at the Department of Oriental Philology and Translation of the Institute of Philology and multilingual education of Abai KazNPU senior teacher E.Z. Esbossynov organized a webinar «Kazakhstan - the country of friendship». The Head of the Department of Oriental Philology and Translation, Professor K.H. Abdrakhmanova, opened it.

Member of the Council of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, Honorary Head of the Department of Oriental Philology and Translation, Doctor of Philology, Professor Knyaz Mirzoev made a report on the topic: «The Assembly is the guardian of the consent and unity of the people of Kazakhstan». He noted that the establishment of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan by the First President of Kazakhstan, Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev, influenced the achievement of a new qualitative level of interethnic relations in the country. Also noting the importance of the Kazakh alphabet based on the Latin alphabet, the speaker spoke in favor of adopting the common Turkic alphabet proposed by Doctor of Philology, Professor Alimkhan Zhunusbek, a leading researcher at the A. Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Yershat Asmatov, Deputy Chairman of the Republican Uyghur Ethno-Cultural Center, Deputy of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, editor - in-chief of the Republican newspaper «Uyghur Avazi», in his report «Unity and peace-a guarantee for our future» noted the role and importance of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan in interethnic life and inter-confessional harmony and tolerance.

Head of the department of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan of our University, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Gulzhihan Shakharman in her report «Tolerance - an integral part of patriotism» told about the structure and purpose of the department, the order of work and the planned projects and events. Noting the great support of the department among students, she stressed the importance of scientific research and analysis of Kazakhstan`s patriotism in the country, and also informed about the projects implemented in this area.

At the end of the webinar, Yasmina Abdrakhmanova, a first-year student of the specialty «Foreign Philology: Uyghur language and literature, Russian language and literature», made an expressive reading of the patriotic poem «Kazakhstan» in the Uyghur language (author Sh. Baratova).

Fabiana Zhamalova, a first-year student majoring in «Two Foreign Languages», performed the song «Gozalim Bakym»in Azerbaijani.

The webinar was attended by students and undergraduates of the Institute, the teaching staff of the department.

Summing up the results of the online meeting, the head of the Association of Kurds of Kazakhstan «Barbang», a member of the Council of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Philology, Professor Prince Ibragimovich Mirzoev congratulated the university staff, all students and teachers on the holiday of May 1 - the Day of Unity of the People of Kazakhstan and thanked all participants of the webinar for their active participation in the national patriotic event.

Technical support for the webinar was provided by senior teachers Gulnaz Satbay and Nurzhamal Kospaganbetova.