S. G. AZERBAYEV Candidate of Historical Sciences Abylai Khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages (Alma-Ata) Keywords: Kazakhstan, Middle East, Egypt, foreign policy The Middle East region plays a special role in the system of international relations, occupies an important place in the foreign policy interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan (ROK) and is one of the vectors of the country's foreign policy due to its geopolitical significance, economic potential, and close historical and cultural ties with the peoples of the region. The importance of the Middle East is reinforced by its unique geostrategic advantage and its vast human and natural resources. These factors determine the steady desire of many states of the modern world to increase large-scale cooperation with this region. One of the most important factors determining the structure of developing countries in the region is oil. According to the Chairman of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan K. Tokayev, the countries of the Middle East serve as confirmation that the role of a raw material appendage of the West, involved in the virtually neocolonial division of labor, even if rich, is not the most enviable role. The second Kuwait can be as rich as it is dependent.1 The peculiarities of Kazakhstan's foreign policy in the Middle East are related to the parallel development of Kazakhstan's relations with the Arab world and Israel. Building relations with the countries of the Middle East, Kazakhstan is objectively involved in a very complex and sensitive issue of the "big politics" of the Middle East settlement, but, first of all, in the development of relations with Israel, with Arab countries, and with their partners, but at the same time, in fact, with their political opponents in the conflict settlement process. For this reason, all foreign policy actions in Kazakhstan are carefully weighed and conducted taking into account the interests of the parties involved in the conflict ... Read more