Kazakhstan's Secretary of State - Minister of Foreign Affairs Kanat Saudabayev told the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Navi Pillay that Kazakhstan is committed to promoting further democracy and human rights both domestically and internationally.
The two officials met in Geneva on March 3 as Mr Saudabayev began his visit to UN institutions there.

The beginning of the new year and new decade was marked by the event, which gave start to the formation of a new configuration of economic and political environment as the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as other integration associations. Since January 1, 2010, the Custom Union of three countries - Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia has entered into the phase of real functioning.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev held the first plenary session of Kazakhstan’s Business Council on February 26, 2010.
As a result, two large state development programs Business Road Map 2010 and Kazakhstan’s Intensified Industrial and Innovation Development until 2015 were approved.

A group of Kazakh and international nongovernmental organizations, supported by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OSCE Center in Astana, announced March 1 a competition for journalistic coverage of Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Interlocutors exchanged opinions on current condition and prospects of development of the Kazakhstan-Israel economic mutual relations.