ASTANA. August 18. KAZINFORM /Zhanna Korkitova/ Paulo Coelho, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Dzu, Armand Assante, Stanislav Govorukhin, Sergey Kara-Murza, Yuri Luzhkov, Adrien Brody and many others will attend the World Forum of Spiritual Culture, planned to be held on October 18-20 in Astana. Co-chairman of the organizing committee Tolegen Mukhamedzhanov has informed about it at a press conference today.

About 400 applications for participation from 65 countries have been received to date. "We have two months ahead of the forum, thus the number of the participating states will increase to 70", he noted.

Among the attendees will be prime ministers of different countries, senators, actors, journalists and many other outstanding figures.

This is will be a brand new forum that will certainly attract many foreign media.