In the mid-20th century, new generations of Central Asian creative and scientific intelligentsia had to independently reconstruct their knowledge of the centuries of cultural activity of their peoples within the interdependent history of humanity. The acquisition of historical agency in dialogue with global culture and the desire to inscribe the cultural heritage of their peoples into world history became the mission of the new generation of intellectuals of the national republics.
The leader of this generation was Olzhas Suleimenov, a great poet, thinker, diplomat, and statesman (born in 1936). He was the author of the poems "Earth, Bow to Man!" (1961), "The Clay Book" (1969), and the book "Az i Ya" (1975). His literary and socio-political activities, beginning in the 1960s, contributed to the formation of a qualitatively new level of national self-awareness and historical agency among the peoples of Central Asia. He was the founder of the philosophy of conscious interdependence, Turkic Slavic studies, and the archeology of the sign and word. He was the founder and leader of the international anti-nuclear movement "Neva da Semipalatinsk" (1989), whose activities united all anti-nuclear forces worldwide and led to the banning of nuclear testing at five nuclear test sites worldwide. He authored and initiated the Law on the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples of the USSR. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Over the years, he headed the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan and the State Committee for Cinematography. He was elected a member of the USSR Parliament, served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Italy, Greece, and Malta, and as Permanent Delegate of Kazakhstan to UNESCO.
Since 2018, he has directed the International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO.

We, participants of the IX International Conference in Support of the Culture of Knowledge on the theme "Intellectual History of Central Asia in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century," dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Olzhas Suleimenov, to be held on September 29, 2026, in Almaty,

consider it necessary to
initiate, at the institutional level, a process of understanding the ideological, literary, scientific, and philosophical legacy of the Central Asian intelligentsia, including the experience of acquiring historical subjectivity, and to develop practical mechanisms for incorporating them into the modern cultural and educational process with the goal of reviving reading nations;
introduce Olzhas Suleimenov's historical and linguistic discoveries into scientific circulation, and, with the support of interested countries and organizations, initiate targeted funding for a research project aimed at developing and institutionally advancing the international scientific and academic discipline of Olzhas studies;
Include the fundamental tenets of Olzhas Suleimenov's philosophy of conscious interdependence in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as a global philosophical teaching aimed at humanizing international relations and bringing cultures closer together in the 21st century;
Include October 19, 1989, in the calendar of significant and memorable dates as the day the nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site ceased and the international moratorium on nuclear testing began;
Call upon all interested scientific and cultural organizations to participate in the future work of the International Organizing Committee, established in 2026, to nominate Olzhas Suleimenov for the Nobel Peace Prize as the first Nobel Laureate from Central Asia.