Since the beginning of 2018, more than a month has passed. During this time, Nursultan Nazarbayev made only one official visit. January 16 in Washington, he met with USA President Donald Trump. All newspapers, magazines, TV channels, and websites around the world discussed and wrote about this meeting. However, today we will talk about the work plan of last year. In 2017, with whom Nazarbayev met in domestic and foreign policy? Which department' head was received by the president in domestic politics?
Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was 77 years old in 2017, surprised the younger generation with his work schedule. He showed that he can still work much more than ten young politicians with his busy schedule. If you look at official website of Akorda, you will see it.
As stated by the official website of Akorda , last year Nursultan Nazarbayev had 20 official visits. 9 of them were abroad, and 11 were official visits around Kazakhstan. In 2017, Nursultan Nazarbayev gave priority in foreign policy to Russia. Last year, he had five meetings with Vladimir Putin, 11 times on a phone call and two trips to northern neighbor for a formal visit. Central Asia is located in second place in foreign policy after Russia. In this regard it is interesting to note that Nursultan Nazarbayev paid more attention to Uzbekistan than other countries in the region. He held meetings with President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev three times, talked five times on a phone call and made one official visit.
As for the country, in 2017, Nursultan Nazarbayev visited all regions except Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Pavlodar and North Kazakhstan regions. Additionly, He received heads of different departments and regional governors several times in Akorda . Among them were many times the Head of the National Security Committee Karim Massimov, the Minister of the Interior Kalmukhamet Kasymov and Minister of Defense Saken Zhasuzakov.