Archive for April 28th, 2008
News Roundup - April 28, 2008
energy:
Kazakhstan interested in transporting its oil via Georgia
“Kazakhstan is interested in Georgia’s infrastructure useful for the supply of Kazak oil to the consumers in the Black Sea littoral countries. Currently, we are negotiating with Georgia on transportation of Kazakhstan’s oil products to the world markets via Georgian infrastructural companies.”
Kazakhstan: The parliament ratified the treaty on oil transportation routes detouring Russia
(Journal of Turkish Weekly/Ferghana.ru) - The treaty in question stands for a new system of Kazakh oil transportation across the Caspian Sea and into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan system. Wholly new infrastructure is to be built, including expansion of terminals in Kazakh ports and construction of a pipeline across the Caspian bedrock…
Kazakhstan is speeding up a transportation system for delivery of the Caspian oil to the BTC oil pipeline (Kazakhstan Today/Gazeta.kz)
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan hold talks on tariffs for oil transit: Vice Minister (Kazinform)
First stage of “Kazakhstan-China” pipeline construction started (Kazakhstan Today/Gazeta.kz)
Iran is ready to be a router for Caspian oil export to world market (Azerbaijan Business Center)
Kazakh PM, President of Total Exploration and Production company had a talk (Kazinform)
business and economy:
Alliance Bank, Bank Caspian agree with Fitch that Kazakh banks’ asset quality shows negative trend
Kazakhstan-based Alliance Bank and Bank Caspian say the negative trend of Kazakh banks’ asset quality as recently stated by Fitch Ratings is logical…
Kazakhstan’s participation in Georgian economy discussed (Kazinform)
Indicators - Kazakhstan - April 25
(Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges…
politics:
(Gazeta.kz) - In the first day of the VII Eurasian Media Forum, Zbigniew Brzezinski, an American political science expert and diplomat, gave an interview to television channels Khabar, NTV and the newspaper Karavan. Here are his responses to the questions…
Financial police pledges to bring Kulekeev’s case to court in May
(Interfax) - Zhaksybek Kulekeyev, the head of the state railway company, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) charged with taking a bribe will be put on trial at the end of next month, the chair of the Kazakhstan’s agency for fighting corruption (Financial Police) Sarybai Kalmurzaev said…
President Islam Karimov wraps up his official visit to Kazakhstan (Journal of Turkish Weekly/UzReport.uz)
Kazakhstan ratified agreement on creation of the united system for technical coverage of railroads of the CSTO countries-members (Kazakhstan Today/Gazeta.kz)
Kazakh Parliament will bend every effort to increase UN’s potential: K.Tokayev (Kazinform)
society:
Culture Minister believes bilingualism helped Kazakhstan to take one of leading roles in CIS
(Interfax) - Minister of Information and Culture Yermukhamet Yertysbaev believes that the bilingual culture in Kazakhstan is an important part of intellectual modernization of the country…
Kazakhstan: Growing threats to religious property (Forum 22)
Turkmen Days of Culture in Kazakhstan opened (Kazinform)
Vinoukurov planning to return at the Olympics (Cycling Weekly)
other news:
Europe launches sat-nav tester
A demonstrator spacecraft for Europe’s proposed Galileo satellite navigation system has launched from Kazakhstan. The Giove-B satellite was taken into space atop a Soyuz rocket which left Earth at 2216 GMT, Saturday…
regional news:
Russia and its allies conduct Eurasia air defense drill
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) - NATO’s eastwards expansion plan, articulated earlier this month at a summit in Bucharest, has firmed up Kremlin opposition to the alliance’s interest in former Soviet republics, particularly Georgia and the Ukraine, which over the last year has taken the form of military power projections beyond Russia’s frontiers…
analysis:
Energy cooperation and the Shanghai cooperation organization: Much ado about nothing?
(Eurasia Insight) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, originally envisioned as a regional security provider in Central Asia, is striving to branch out into the energy sphere. The United States and European Union, two energy rivals in the regions, profess not to be concerned – yet…
Karimov, Bakiyev react differently to Nazarbayev’s Central Asia Union
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) - On April 22 Uzbek President Islam Karimov visited Astana to meet with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Both leaders agreed to boost bilateral economic cooperation by creating a common trade area at the borders. Karimov’s harsh criticism of Nazarbayev’s Central Asia Union (CAU), however, raised eyebrows among many in Kazakh political circles…
