The Third Ministerial Meeting of the members of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), chaired by Kazakhstan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marat Tazhin, is to be held in Almaty.
Head of State, Nursultan Nazarbayev is expected to take part in the opening ceremony.
Before the Meeting a ceremony of entry of new countries into the CICA will be held – the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Delegations from 20 member states of CICA, observers and guests will take part in the Meeting.
The main focus of the Meeting will be the realization of “Cooperation approach to the realization of the CICA confidence-building measures”.
"In accordance with the oblast akimats, forecast figures of current year harvest are about between 16.5 and 17.5 mln tons of grain," representative of THE Agriculture Ministry Anna Buts has told today at a conference on organization of grain transportation.
“Taking into account internal consumption, forecast for export may comprise 5-5.5 mln tons of grain. As for the ban for grain export, its supply will not be limited. The Government takes certain measures on provision of food security in the country”, A. Buts noted.
"KTZ expects to deliver 700-800 thousand tons of grain in Sep, including over 500 thousand tons for export and 180 thousand tons – for internal market. At present the company has 5229 wagons for grain shipment," KTZ Managing Director Kanat Almagambetov said.
XXIX Olympic Games continue in Beijing. Over these days KZ sportsmen have won 7 medals in different kinds of sport.
In particular, silver medal was won by: weightlifters – Irina Nekrasova (63kg) and Alla Vazhenina (75kg) and judoist Askhat Zhitkeyev (78kg).
Bronze medal was won by: Greco-Roman wrestlers Nurbakhyt Tenizbayev and Asset Mambetov (60kg and 96kg categories), weightlifter Marina Grabovetskaya (75kg) and free-style wrestler Yelena Shalygina (63kg).
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