On May 3-6, Astana has become host to Kazakhstan’s second international exhibition of arms and military equipment KADEX-2012. President of Kazakhstan - Chief of the country’s armed forces Nursultan Nazarbayev attended the opening ceremony at Kazakhstan’s Air Force Base located a few kilometers from Astana on Thursday. This year, more than 250 companies from over 20 countries worldwide applied for the participation in the exhibition. President Read more
Astana and Tokyo take a step forward in expanding bilateral relations by signing a total of six documents on enhancing economic cooperation as well as a Road Map, which involves 40 industrial projects in the Kazakh economy’s priority sectors, including the nuclear and petrochemical industries, mining and metallurgical complex, and high technologies.
The agreements were reached Wednesday during talks betwee Read more
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors adopted a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) with Kazakhstan for 2012-2017, the Bank’s Country Office wrote on May 1. In
addition, the Board of Executives approved a U.S. $ 1.068 billion loan to Kazakhstan for the EastWest Roads Project, the Bank informed on the same day.
The main objective of the new CPS is to assist Kazakhst Read more
The Republic Square in Almaty will host the opening of a new “Almaly” underground shopping centre, the first in Central Asia, on April 28, according to the public Read more
Kazakhstan and Germany have vast potential to further enhance their economic and trade relations and raise bilateral cooperation to a new level. First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Serik Akhmetov, delivered this message at the Third Raw Materials Conference in Berlin held on April 25.
Security Council Secretaries of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) expressed their readiness to establish military training ground for the Organisation’s Collective Rapid Reaction Force during the meeting in Astana on April 27.
