Articles by Assem Kazybay

An international round table, “The Future of the Nuclear Power Industry and Renewable Energy Resources,” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Nuclear Society of Kazakhstan, was held at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk on July 16. Opening the round table, President of the association and Chairman of the Board of Kazatomprom Vladimir Shkolnik…

ASTANA – Uzakbai Karabalin was appointed by decree of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 3 as Kazakhstan’s new Minister of Oil and Gas. Karabalin replaces outgoing minister Sauat Mynbayev who was made the new chairman of the board of the national oil and gas company, KazMunayGas. Prior to the appointment, Karabalin was serving as…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on June 30 in Atyrau, the so-called oil capital of the country. The meeting was part of the first visit by a British Prime Minister to Kazakhstan since the country gained independence more than 20 years ago. Nazarbayev and Cameron attended a…

ASTANA – On June 21, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the law “On pension provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan,” aimed at creating the conditions for modernising the pension system, ensuring its financial stability, accumulating and growing pension savings and ensuring the transparency of pension savings management. The president also signed the law “On…

ASTANA – On June 20, the Consultative-Advisory Body: Platform for Dialogue on the Human Dimension met for the second time, this time on the theme “Rule of law: the right to a fair legal process.” Under the chairmanship of Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Usen Suleimen, CAB members discussed the improvement of the…

ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev on June 13 signed into law legislation designed to ensure the constitutional rights of citizens within local governments. The president’s signature will begin the implementation of a decree announced in November 2012.The purpose of the new law is to create legal conditions to ensure the exercise of the constitutional rights…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has returned to Parliament for further discussion a draft law on pension system reform, which includes raising the retirement age for women from 58 to 63. The change would make the retirement age for women the same as it is for men and was proposed to be implemented over…

ASTANA – Fixed mobile convergence services will be a major priority for JSC Kazakhtelecom across Kazakhstan beginning this September while by next year all rural areas in the country will be provided with telecommunications services and the Internet, the company’s chairman of the board of said on June 3. Kuanyshbek Yessekeyev, speaking to reporters at…

ASTANA – Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist People’s Party of Kazakhstan (CPPK) Vladislav Kosarev and Tulesh Kenzhin, as well as chairman of the Central Control and Auditing Commission of the CPPK Alexander Kholodkov relinquished their powers during the June 1 eighth extraordinary congress of their party giving way for the election of…

ASTANA – Fixed mobile convergence services will be a major priority for JSC Kazakhtelecom across Kazakhstan beginning this September while by next year all rural areas in the country will be provided with telecommunications services and the Internet, the company’s chairman of the board of said on June 3. Kuanyshbek Yessekeyev, speaking to reporters at…

ASTANA – In a recent interview, the chairperson of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), which oversees civil aviation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, said Kazakhstan’s civil aviation has seen strong development since the country gained independence. “Kazakhstan has been in the structure of the Interstate Aviation Committee since its establishment in 1991. President Nursultan…

ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan sent a letter of condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama today in connection with the bombings in the city of Boston. According to the press service of the Akorda presidential residence, the letter says Nursultan Nazarbayev was deeply saddened by the news of many victims of the terrorist…

ASTANA – The first meeting of the Youth Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held on March 29 in St. Petersburg, Russia.The assembly served as a platform, where young people from the 12 CIS nations introduced positions and presented opinions on issues concerning them. The meeting marked a major advance on the…

ASTANA – On March 3-5, a delegation from Kazakhstan led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov and including NAC Kazatomprom JSC Board Chairman Vladimir Shkolnik and JSC Kirov Machine Building Plant General Director Kanat Uskenov visited India. During the visit, Idrissov held talks with Vice President and Chairman of the Upper House of the…

ASTANA – On Feb. 26, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Volkov participated in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. As a leading nation in the global process of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament Kazakhstan gives great importance to the conference, which it has attended since 1999. Volkov told the conference that Kazakhstan welcomed the growth in…

ASTANA – A delegation from Kazakhstan, headed by Chairman of the Senate and Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions Kairat Mami, took part in the fifth Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations held in Vienna Feb. 27-28. The theme of this forum was “Promotion of…

In a sign of growing friendship and expanding strategic partnership, President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid a working visit to Spain on Feb. 5-6 for meetings with King Juan Carlos I, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and chief executives of major Spanish companies working in Kazakhstan, including Patentes Talgo S.A., Airbus Military and others. President Nazarbayev arrived in…

Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the efforts of President Nursultan Nazarbayev to promote inter-religious and inter-cultural understanding on Feb. 6 and gave his apostolic blessing to Kazakhstan’s initiatives in this field. The pope shared his views in a meeting with Chairman of Kazakhstan’s Senate and Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World…

President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow on Feb. 8, 2013 and agreed to increase cooperation on numerous issues, including continuing the mutually beneficial cooperative use of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. “Since December we have been discussing new tasks for the upcoming year. We gave instructions on the preparation of a new…

ASTANA – On Feb. 3, 2013, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov finished his official visit to the European Union, which included stops in Brussels, Berlin and Munich. On Jan. 29-30, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Kazakhstan and the European Union, Idrissov visited Brussels…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan is known internationally due in greater part to the global initiatives of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, especially in the area of inter-ethnic dialogue, politicians and experts said at…