GOVERNMENT OF
REPUBLIC OF KAZAKSTAN

“Kazakhstan views Azerbaijan as one of the key states in the Caucasus, as a promising partner in energy and transport & communications projects as well as in the realms of safety provision in the Caspian basin and in counteracting new challenges”, Head of the Kazakh Government said.

At a Government’s sitting, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov outlined a number of tasks to be accomplished in the nearest time.

This had been suggestion put forward by Agip KCO, the project operator. The delay has been decided following “revision and reconfiguration of the project with a view of ensuring safety of the technological process and the workers’ safety”, the Minister elaborated.

Karim Massimov told the briefing that in the course of his meeting with President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan the sides had dwelt on a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation between the two nations.

Kazakh Cycling Federation is deeply concerned with the allegations that Alexander Vinokurov, a leader of the Astana cycling team, tested positive for blood transfusion.

Karim Massimov, Kazakh Prime Minister, instructed Ministries of Industry and Trade, Justice in collaboration with the SaryArka Social Enterprise to draft a bill on social enterprises by September 1, 2007.

86 break-through projects totally worth USD 56 billion have been chosen so far under the “30 Corporate Leaders of Kazakhstan” Program. This was announced in a live broadcast today by the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev when he was presenting break-through projects proposed by 9 regions of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev attended ground-breaking ceremonies to have construction started of three plants in the industrial park of Astana.

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov ordered to establish tighter control over license holders in the realm of electric power industry.

This afternoon, at an extended sitting of the Nur-Otan People’s Democratic Party fraction, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev read a draft law on early dissolution of the 3rd Majilis of the Kazakh Parliament.