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...States. Russia, however, remains the naval powerhouse in the Caspian. Zhanzakov, the naval commander, said the creation of a Kazakhstani navy should not be viewed as a hostile development by its neighbors. “Our government is multi-vectoral, and tries to be...
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ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-1461-98b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=117990
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...visit is his second in six months. Hu visited Kazakhstan last December, and attended the completion ceremony of the China-Kazakhstan natural gas pipeline, together with President Nazarbayev in Astana. Nazarbayev said Hu's visit and the consensus the two heads...
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7024499.html
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...Sapphire. This past December, we marked the sixteenth anniversary of the landmark Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in Kazakhstan and we continue to work in partnership with Kazakhstan to advance our common non-proliferation goals. In April President Obama...
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US State Dept. - Travel Bureau
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AFP - Kazakhstan on Wednesday angrily denied it planned to sell Iran purified uranium ore, calling media reports to this effect "groundless insinuations."
Kazakhstan "categorically repudiates certain news media reports alleging Kazakhstan's connection
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France 24
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4959206
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Editor’s note: To commemorate the coming new year, neweurasia is looking heavenward to gaze into Central Asia’s past, present, and future. Averroes, having explored Turkmenistan’s space ambitions, now turns to Kazakhstan. “At least Turkmenistan has
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Kazakhstan Blog
http://www.neweurasia.net/business-and-economics/the-cennetnauts-of-the-starry-steppes/
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Respublika journalists demonstrate with activists in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on international human rights day. Photograph: Luke Harding
For Respublika it has been a long battle for survival. In September bailiffs seized the opposition
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Guardian Unlimited
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/29/kazakhstan-press-freedom-osce
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...cracking down on drug trafficking and other cross-border crimes. Hu arrived in Astana earlier Saturday for a two-day visit to Kazakhstan at the invitation of Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan is the first leg of Hu's two-nation Central Asia trip. He is expected to...
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6840306.html
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) is welcomed by a Kazakh official upon his arrival at Astana, Kazakhstan, Dec. 12, 2009. Hu arrived here Saturday for a working visit aimed at enhancing the strategic partnership between China and Kazakhstan. (Xinhua/Rao
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/12/content_12635744.htm
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MOSCOW - Russia recognizes the importance of the opportunities that are open to Kazakhstan in its upcoming chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. So Moscow is certainly interested in having a coordinated position with
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New Europe News
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97787.php
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1. Is Kazakhstan the right choice for the OSCE chair in 2010?
Kazakhstan was a highly controversial choice because of its poor record of adherence to OSCE human rights principles. For that reason, Kazakhstan was unsuccessful in its chairmanship bids in
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Human Rights Watch
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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/25/ten-questions-kazakhstan-and-osce-chairmanship
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New Delhi, Nov.21 (ANI): India and Kazakhstan have both been affected by the global recession, but this has not prevented them from striving to keep bilateral business ties alive since January of this year, when the meltdown was at its devastating peak.
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OneIndia
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oneindia-all-news/~3/7KoI5mgZUEc/delhihosts-kazakhstan-india-travel-and-tourismfair.html
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The government of Kazakhstan has hired a Washington lobbying firm to try to change regulations that require countries to make progress on human rights in order to receive US aid. Kazakhstani officials have indicated that they would prefer to not get
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EurasiaNet
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/eav111309a.shtml
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There was a festive mood in a village in Mongolias Khovd District recently as family and friends gathered to celebrate the birth of a baby into an ethnic Kazakh family. A new arrival is always cause for celebration in a Kazakh household, marked with a
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EurasiaNet
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav110409a.shtml
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One of the most talked about news in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry today is that Caspian gas, in particular, from Azerbaijan may turn 180 degrees around and flow east instead of west, toward China. This unexpected idea originated in Kazakhstan. The
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New Europe News
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97230.php
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2009-10-22 11:49:02 - Kazakhstan Infrastructure Report Q4 2009 - a new market research report on companiesandmarkets.com
its position as the potential bridge between China and Europe. In BMI’s Q409 Kazakhstan Infrastructure Report we forecast
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/the-world-bank-and-kazakhstan-agree-r1540683.htm
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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev has much to gloat about regarding his country's 2010 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
As the first former Soviet republic to chair the organization, Kazakhstan
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Spero News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/speroforum/nroq/~3/ZfkedhMjI3k/Is-Kazakhstan-Fit-To-Chair-The-OSCE
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...with the participation of Kyrgyz capital, working in trade, tourism, construction, transport, and advertising. Ownership of Kazakhstan's resorts Cooperation in the tourism industry was also discussed during Masimov's visit. In particular, the implementation...
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Uz Report
http://business.uzreport.com/aziya.cgi?lan=e&id=67842
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The governments of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have reached agreement on all issues discussed during the visit of Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov to Bishkek last week, TCA reported citing the press service of the Kyrgyz government.
Complete
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Uz Report
http://business.uzreport.com/aziya.cgi?lan=e&id=67842
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ACCORDING to the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan, as of 2008 year-end there were around 3.9 million Kazakhstanis of Russian origin, which constitutes 25.5% of the total population of Kazakhstan. And overwhelming majority of representatives of the
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New Europe News
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96972.php
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan — French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup today during a visit to energy-rich Kazakhstan, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/business/~3/NseSQvjrvzk/6654424.html
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(bne) - Eight months after Kazakhstan’s law on Islamic finance and banking was adopted, a handful of local and international Islamic institutions have already set up in the country. Looking ahead, the issuance of Islamic bonds by Kazakhstan-based
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Silk Road Intelligencer
http://silkroadintelligencer.com/2009/10/02/kazakhstans-islamic-finance-market-starts-to-grow/
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Oil and gas events have already successfully taken place in Russia (MIOGE'09), Azerbaijan (Caspian Oil and Gas 2009) and Uzbekistan (OGU'09).
The calendar of oil and gas events in the CIS continues with KIOGE 2009, the 17th Kazakhstan International
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Uz Report
http://business.uzreport.com/mir.cgi?lan=e&id=67189
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A Frenchman, who was following his girlfriend at the time, planned to write an amusing book about our country and continue travelling afterwards. But circumstances changed: instead of staying one year, he stayed three; he has a new girlfriend – a
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Kazakhstan Blog
http://www.neweurasia.net/culture-and-history/nicolas-journoud-kazakhstan-revealed-to-me-my-true-nature/
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Yevgeny Zhovtis, Kazakhstan's best-known human rights advocate and government critic, was sentenced to four years in jail last week for breaching traffic regulations following a road accident in which a pedestrian was killed. Regional campaigners
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Comment Is Free
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/10/kazakhstan-osce-human-rights-activist
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Astana (Kazakhstan), Sep.9 (ANI): The Embassy of India in Kazakhstan has organized an "India Week and Food Festival" in Astana and Almaty from September 8 to 18 in collaboration with the Rixos President Hotel Astana, Intercontinental Hotel Almaty and
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Newstrack India
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/121944
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The US is also the biggest investor in Kazakhstan and the bilateral investment treaties between the two countries are a good example of how political and legal cooperation can lead to economic success.
*Mehmet Öğütçü is a Mülkiye,
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Today's Zaman
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=184475
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It remains a strong proponent of regional integration in order to achieve economies of scale and regional, commercial and geopolitical opportunities. Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan established the Eurasian Economic
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Today's Zaman
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=184360
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The global financial crisis, depressed demand growth and declining energy prices have shifted this region to an inward focus. Kazakhstan is grappling with a credit crunch, unemployment and a crisis in the banking system. The Russo-Georgian war and
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Today's Zaman
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=184261
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...point of view, Professor Stopdan said: "We have come a long way". Placing particular emphasis on the fact that India and Kazakhstan separately share borders with Asian giant China, Professor Stopdan cautioned that neither India nor Kazakhstan could afford...
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Newstrack India
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/115992
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Speaking after the launch of the book "Contemporary Kazakhstan: The Way Ahead", former diplomat Rajiv Sikri said as both India and Kazakhstan possessed a high and welcome degree of scholarship and exchange, there was scope for broadening cooperation in
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New Kerala
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-88309.html
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...one visits Kazakhstan," he said. For instance, the fact that there were now three Air Astana flights a week from New Delhi to Kazakhstan, as opposed to none in 1991-92, was a pointer to progress being made in Indo-Kazakh ties. There was now a greater awareness...
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OneIndia
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oneindia-all-news/~3/7ONq786fUZk/indiakazakhstan-must-actualize-strategic-partnershippoten.html
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After the events in Khanabad Uzbekistan started the erection of concrete walls, digging the ditches and trenches at the border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan without any preliminary agreements. The emerged tensions became the subject of analysis by
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Ferghana
http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2561
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan — More than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city on Sunday to protest China's use of deadly force to quash Uighur protests this month.
The show of solidarity was the largest in any of the former
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1405671.html
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the outgoing NATO Secretary General was a main guest of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum, which was held in Sweden in 2005 and in FYROM in 2007. NATO is seeking to deepen cooperation with its
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New Europe News
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32190/f/421637/s/521add5/l/0L0Sneurope0Beu0Carticles0C953370Bphp/story01.htm
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Astana, July 2 (IANS) Eighteen years ago, Kazakhstan became the last of the former Soviet republics to reluctantly part ways with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now the strategically located Central Asian nation is preparing to head a
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Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=a7c3227c-3259-4bab-a0ed-eda7b13937c7&SectionName=RSSFeed-News
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New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): India and Kazakhstan are actively working to finalize the inter-governmental agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, revealed Kazakhstan's Ambassador to India, Dr. Kairat Umarov, during an interaction
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OneIndia
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oneindia-news-india/~3/4SqjE0JplAM/indiakazakhstan-working-on-inter-governmental-nuke-energy.html
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Following the collapse of the USSR, the Republic of Kazakhstan became a participant of major international negotiations and agreements concerning disarmament, arms control as well as confidence-building measures.
In August 1991, Kazakhstan's President
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People's Daily Online
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Lawrence DeNardis is a political science professor who likes to apply government theory to the real world.
The former president of the University of New Haven, who spends several months each year out of the country advising new governments, just got
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New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/06/09/news/a3-nedenardis1.txt
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The government of Kazakhstan is paying an influential Washington think tank to write a series of reports and policy recommendations for the US and Kazakhstani governments concerning Astanas upcoming role as chairman of the Organization for Security and
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EurasiaNet
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav060309b.shtml
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...most markets. As a result, they have flocked to Kazakhstan, which has emerged as a huge uranium hotbed in the last decade. Kazakhstan produced 6,637 tonnes of uranium in 2007, or 16% of the world total, according to the World Nuclear Association. Canada was...
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Pakistan News.net
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The Russian version of "The God Father-in-Law", the book of Rakhat Aliyev, published in Germany, is distributed via internet in PDF format to everyone, willing to read it. Supernormal readers’ interest to "The God Father-in-Law" is fueled by the
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Ferghana
http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2537
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...proactively to meet the needs of Saudi and other foreign investors. Al-Dabbagh returned the commitment to working with Kazakhstan to enhance its competitiveness, given the success Sagia has had leading the Saudi Arabia's national competitiveness agenda. Saudi...
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TradeArabia
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(New York) - The Kazakh government should use the remaining seven
months before it takes on the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to bring its human rights record in line with the responsibilities this
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/6f81c6cbc8757726841790c2c5828b9f.htm
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The occasion of the 17th anniversary since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries is an appropriate time to note that Israel was one of the first states to recognize the independent Republic of Kazakhstan - in December of 1991.
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Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1242212417040
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...major banks have been nationalized, and their economy is feeling serious pressure. While some remain optimistic that growth, however limited, will still occur, there are other signs that point to the possibility of a shrinking economy. Perhaps most news...
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Registan.net :: Central Asia News
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The World Bank Board of Directors approved today a US$ 2.125 billion loan for the Kazakhstan South-West Roads Project to help upgrade the trade route linking China to Russia and Western Europe through Kazakhstan, bringing a helpful economic stimulus
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Uz Report
http://finance.uzreport.com/other.cgi?lan=e&id=61345
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Not so long ago Kazakhstan was entertaining aspirations of becoming one of the worlds 50 largest economies. Now, Astana finds itself in a position where it must reluctantly part with energy assets in order to prop up its shaky financial sector.
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EurasiaNet
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav042009.shtml
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...to conquer the crisis and emerge as an even stronger country, he said. Nazarbayev said as part of the global economy, Kazakhstan has also felt the difficulties arising from the economic crisis. Thanks for the revenues earned by the oil and gas industry...
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/14/content_11183539.htm
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan offered Monday to host an international nuclear fuel bank, and Iran's leader said he supported the idea.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1214204.html
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By Marat Tazhin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan
On 21st March 2009, the Treaty on the Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zone in Central Asia - signed on September 8th 2006 in Semei - came into force.
Two years ago, the Ministers of Foreign
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6625289.html
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