Kazakhstan’s newly elected president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will be inaugurated at the Ak Orda presidential palace on Wednesday. Delegations from more than 70 countries will attend, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Yerzhan Ashykbayev told the media on Monday. Thirty-two delegations will be led either by presidents, prime ministers or government members. “Confirmations of participation have been received from the leaders of Russia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Croatia,” Ashykbayev said. A number of international organizations will be represented at the inauguration, too. The foreign ministry spokesman mentioned some of them – UN Deputy Secretary-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze, European Union Special Envoy Jan Kubis, Eurasian Economic Community Secretary-General Grigory Rapota, Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha, CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir Rushailo, Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretary-General Zhang Deguang and OSCE Secretary- General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman described the forthcoming inauguration as “an unprecedented event in the history of Kazakhstan that will enhance Kazakhstan’s reputation and positions in the world community.” A group of 300 mass media workers have been accredited at the inauguration ceremony. (Itar-Tass)