Astana. June 18. Kazakhstan Today - The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, addressing the participants of International Scientific-Practical Conference Role of Public Service in Country's Growth, designated the main approaches to strengthening public service, the agency reports. According to N. Nazarbayev, "it is necessary to strengthen the status of public service, to raise the state personnel policy to a higher rank of national priority of Kazakhstan." "We need to reconsider principles of public service. Its basis should be honesty and efficiency in combination with strong political will, careful planning, problem solving skills, and sensitiveness to the needs of people." The President emphasized the necessity for structural changes of the existing model of public service." "It is necessary to more precisely differentiate political, administrative and public service," he said. In the opinion of the leader of the state, "today's two-level model does not fully meet the requirements of the present stage of the country's development." "Political employees should be ideologists, experts, and active conductors of the party program," the President considers.