Kazakhstan Republic Day is based on the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Kazakh (Soviet Socialist Republic) which was adopted on October 25th 1990.
Kazakhstan commemorated the holiday until 2009. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev suggested bringing back the key date during the first National Kurultai (Congress) on June 16 in the Ulytau Region. President Tokayev signed the bill on changes to various Kazakh laws about films, culture, and holidays in September 2022.
On October 25, 1990, the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) was passed. This was the first step towards the country's independence.
For the first time, the declaration included statehood ideals including integrity, indivisibility, geographical inviolability, the growth of the Kazakh people's culture and language, and the building of national identity.
The text also said that political, economic, and social issues should be handled independently.
The Constitution of Kazakhstan on State Independence, which was passed on December 16, 1991, is based on this proclamation.
The Declaration also split up the authority of the state into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. The President had the most control over running the government and making decisions.
Since Kazakhstan's formal start on the path to full independence, the country has been a leader in global diplomacy, disarmament, and non-proliferation, and it has made progress in efforts to keep the world safe and peaceful.
Kazakhstan is now the ninth-largest exporter of crude oil in the world and has the fifteenth-largest confirmed natural gas reserves. Kazakhstan has the most liquid hydrocarbons of any country that used to be part of the Soviet Union, behind Russia. The nation entered the global oil market in 1993 when the government and Chevron decided to build a huge oil-production company called Tengizchevroil to drill for oil in two large areas in the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan signed a production sharing deal with seven foreign firms in 1997. These businesses were Agip, British Gas, British Petroleum, Mobil, Shell, Statoil, and Total.
The country is now a member of some of the most powerful international groups in the world, such the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Kazakhstan is the first Central Asian country to be voted to a two-year term on the Security Council, the important and permanent UN body that looks into international conflicts and circumstances that often cause global concern.
Kazakhstan is home to more than 19 million people today. The majority of them are ethnic Kazakhs, who make up 70% of the population. In addition to other minorities, the nation is home to Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Tatars, Germans, Koreans, and Azerbaijanis.
