Model United Nations Conference — New Silk Road dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the accession of Kazakhstan and the Central Asian countries to the United Nations
An international student conference of the program "Model UN – New Silk Road" took place at the Library of al-Farabi Kazakh National University on 24th and 25th February 2017. The conference was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan's accession and the Central Asian countries to the United Nations and it had paid special attention to the work of Kazakhstan in the UN Security Council. The vote took place on June 28th, 2016 meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, and as a result Kazakhstan was elected to the Security Council of the United Nations of the Asia-Pacific Group on a temporary basis. Kazakhstan's candidacy was supported by 138 of the 193 countries who took part in the vote. The "Model UN" is a popular global program that comes round in a brainstorming mode and st…