Kazakhstan foreign minister calls for unity in tackling Islamic world issues.
![Leaders and Foreign Ministers pose for group a photo session at the 5th Extraordinary Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 March 2016 [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bb7ff200bcfb416f84323a1df6e249c5_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Erlan Idrissov is foreign minister of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan foreign minister calls for unity in tackling Islamic world issues.
![Leaders and Foreign Ministers pose for group a photo session at the 5th Extraordinary Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 March 2016 [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bb7ff200bcfb416f84323a1df6e249c5_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Kazakhstan and Qatar must work together in the face of unprecedented challenges.
![Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev meets with Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah in Astana on June 17, 2015 [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/676599be7e8f4e9984018bcc4153f0ff_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Kazakhstan’s foreign minister on the rise of ISIL and the need for better international cooperation to curb the threat.
![Armed Syrian rebels during a parade after completing their training in Daraa [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/35f35e5f43ba45319c2f077a03cbb9ae_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The central Asian nation has been working on reducing international nuclear tensions for the past twenty years.
![Kazakhstan has long been a beneficiary of Russian technology, such as this satellite-launching rocket, but unilaterally disarmed all nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014214202247955734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)