Kazakhstan News

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko held a meeting with Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Filat.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 20 / Trend News K. Konyrova /

Kazak Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabaev will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Nov. 22.

At that he noted that regular meeting between Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers is rescheduled for February in Luxemburg.

Company cements position in Central Asian oil and gas industry with second national comedy tour and raises US$4000 for the Children's Health Charity, Aktau 20 November 2009 - shipping, marine and logistics services provider GAC Group has hosted its second comedy tour of Kazakhstan, as promised at the conclusion of the highly acclaimed inaugural ...

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 20 / corr. Trend News K.Konirova

The joint presentation of the "Kazakhstan's presidency at OSCE" report will be held in RIA Novosti office in Moscow on Dec. 9. The report was prepared by Russian experts and considered with representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Lomonosov Moscow State University expert group head Aleksey Vlasov told Trend News

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 19 November / Trend Capital, G.Hasanov /

International Gas Union (IGU), established in 1931, invited the gas producing states of Central Asia - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, to join it. The Secretary General of the organization Torstein Indrebo made this proposal today during Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan-2009 conference held in Ashgabat.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has begun a third round of discussions in Almaty about upcoming counterterrorism exercises, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 19 / corr Trend News K.Konirova

Kairat Kelimbetov was elected president of the Kazakhstan Cycle Racing Federation today. Kelimbetov is chairman of the Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund, the Fund Samruk Kazina told Trend News.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 18 / Trend Capital K. Konyrova /

Today new ambassadors from eight countries, including the Netherlands, Canada, Latvia, Belgium, France, Finland, Mongolia and Georgia, presented their credentials to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Ak-Orda.

Kazakh banks will be able to return to international capital markets in the second half of next year, central bank chairman Grigoriy Marchenko said on Wednesday in an online press conference.

The Mazhilis, Kazakhstan's lower house of the parliament, approved the 2010 state budget on Tuesday which sees the economy growing by 2.4 percent next year.

The International Finance Corporation has lent $60 million to ATF Bank, Kazakhstan's fourth largest bank, to facilitate small business financing, the bank said on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan's banking sector reached the bottom this fall and is now on its way to recovery, according to a research report authored by Russian investment bank VTB Capital.

Tethys Petroleum, a Kazakhstan-focused oil company, has reportedly filed an application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to list on the exchange in the first quarter of 2010, Chinese media reported, citing market sources.

NEW DELHI: Steel magnate L. N. Mittal's Mittal Investment Sarl has pulled out of a project to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in partnership with ONGC Videsh Ltd.

Russia, Moscow, 18 Nov. /Trend News K.Konirova/

Trade and economic ties lie in the basis of bilateral cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia, Kazakhstan foreign minister Kanat Saudabaev said in his address in Moscow State University.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 17 / Trend News K. Konyrova /

Conflicts addressed by the OSCE should be resolved in the previously agreed upon format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to a question posed by Trend News during a news conference in Moscow today.

As Kazakhstan gears up to chair the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2010, Astana is facing criticism over its recent democratization record.

Uranium One Inc. says the Kazakh Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has approved the Vancouver company's purchase of a 50 per cent stake in the Karatau Uranium Mine in Kazakhstan in central Asia.

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Nov. 16 / corr Trend News H.Hasanov /

All five Caspian littoral countries - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran are for rapid coordination of final text of the draft Convention on Caspian legal status.