On November 14, the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan hosted an international cultural and educational conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Conference of writers of Asia and Africa.

Organizers: The International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO and the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan.

The moderators of the event are Doctor of Philology, Professor, Chairman of the Council for Russian Literature of the Union of Writers of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zhaksylykov Aslan Zhamelevich and Head of the Department of Analytics and External Literary Relations of the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member of the Board of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan Ananyeva Svetlana Viktorovna.

The following speakers made welcoming remarks at the conference: poet, statesman and public figure, Hero of Labor of Kazakhstan, Director of the International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO in Almaty Suleimenov Olzhas Omarovich; Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan Zhakip Bauyrzhan Umirzhanovich; Director of the Department of Research, Ethics and Openness of the UNESCO Secretariat Melo Angela (France, Paris); Statesman and public figure, writer, president of the Mukhtar Auezov Foundation, Murat Auezov; People's Writer of Kazakhstan Yelubai Smagul Abatovich; laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Literature named after Abai Kanapyanov Bakhytzhan Musakhanovich; Chairman of the Union of Writers of Belarus Karlyukevich Alexander Nikolaevich (Belarus, Minsk); politician, journalist, writer and publisher Pryakhin Georgy Vladimirovich (Russia, Moscow) and wished success in the work of the conference.

Speakers: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of history, executive editor of the international scientific journal «Bilgamesh», Head of the department of exhibitions and conferences of the International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO Igor Vladimirovich Krupko; President of the Kazakh PEN Club Gabdullin Bigeldy Kairdosovich; literary scholar, Doctor of Philology, Vice President of the National Academy of Science of the Kyrgyz Republic Akmataliev Abdyldajan Amanturovich; Orientalist, Professor of KAZUMO named after Abylai Khan, full member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature Abdullo Safar Abdulloevich; D.I.N., Professor, Chief Researcher of the International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO Khafizova Klara Shaisultanovna; Head of the Department of Analytics and External Literary Relations of the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member of the Board of the Union writers of Kazakhstan Ananyeva Svetlana Viktorovna;  Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Researcher at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) (Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek) Nestor Alexandrovich Manichkin; poet, translator, critic, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine «Prostor», People's Writer of Kazakhstan Lyubov Konstantinovna Shashkova.

The conference was held offline and online (zoom).

Participants: poets, writers, intellectuals, students, readers, media, etc.