Astana. June 13. Kazakhstan Today - 4.5 thousand Kazakhstan citizens can make pilgrimage to Mecca in December 2007, that is twice as much than in the previous year. Such arrangement has been reached at the bilateral meeting in Mecca between the Chief Mufti Absattar kazhi Derbisali and the Minister for Pilgrimage Affairs of Saudi Arabia Fuad Abdel Salam Mohammad Al Farsi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs press service informed.
During the negotiations the parties signed the agreement on the order of organization and carrying out of pilgrimage in December 2007. According to the press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "the Saudi organizations responsible for pilgrimage agreed to cooperate with the Kazakhstan travel companies approved by Spiritual Board of Muslims of Kazakhstan."
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