On 23 October 2012 Ulrich Kühn presented the findings of the IDEAS Report at an international conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The conference “The OSCE Astana Declaration: Towards a Security Community” was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the OSCE Centre in Astana and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KISI). The participants of the workshop agreed on the significance of the Astana Commemorative Declaration and highlighted the need to further the Helsinki+40 process.