We are impressed by Kazakhstan's provision of the chairmanship in the OSCE, especially at this difficult time.

Head of the Directorate -General for External Relations of the European Commission Gunnar Wiegand has made it public at the 10th session of the Cooperation Committee "Kazakhstan - European Union" on June 18.

According to him, the EU closely cooperates with Kazakhstan as the OSCE chair country, especially in the issue of stabilization of the situation in Kyrgyz

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Over the half-year of the Kazakh chairmanship in the OSCE Astana successfully complies with obligations taken on.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantin Zhigalov has said it to journalists following results of the 10th session of the Cooperation Committee "Kazakhstan - European Union" on June 18.

According to him, within the framework of the first dimension (security) Kazakhstan was chairman during holding of ten special sessions on the Corfu Process. "At p

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Algeria held England to a 0-0 draw Friday and left one of the World Cup favorites on the brink of elimination with one game to go in the first round; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

With a sullen Wayne Rooney scoreless for a seventh straight match, England lacked heart and inspiration, struggling throughout against an opponent fighting to avoid becoming the first to be eliminated from the World Cup.

"We weren't aggressive enough," England captain Steven Gerrard said.

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Sixteen people were injured late Wednesday when a passenger train collided with a derailed freight train in northern Germany, police said on Thursday; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

The accident happened around 11:30 pm (2130 GMT) near Peine, a town near Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony, on the line between Hanover and Braunschweig, a spokesman for the Federal Police said.

A regional passenger train carrying more than 60 people collided slammed into three cars of a freight

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 Industry insiders at the 4th Asia Luxury Travel Market (ALTM) exhibition in Shanghai predicted a resurgence in the luxury travel market, with the Asia-Pacific region and China in particular leading the way, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

"The ALTM forum held on Monday concluded that Asia offers the greatest growth for the luxury travel industry," Simon Mayle, marketing manager for ALTM organizer Reed Travel Exhibitions, told the Global Times Wednesday. "Japan is one o

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Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday he hoped that CIS member states would create a free trade zone by the end of the year; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

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At today's SCO Summit in Tashkent President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has suggested creating the SCO Center for mitigation of consequences of emergency situations in Kazakhstan.

"Due to the recent increase in the frequency of natural and manmade disasters and readiness of the SCO member states to render aid to each other in such situations, we consider the establishment of the SCO Center on mitigation of consequences of emergency situations in Kazakhstan will allow to inc

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Kazakhstan has taken over the chairmanship in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization today. Summing up the results of the SCO Summit in Tashkent Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov delegated power of the SCO chair to his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.

As N. Nazarbayev noted, as SCO Chair Kazakhstan will make every effort to continue deepening of multilateral cooperation. "Special attention will be paid to activation of international contacts aimed at positioning the SCO a

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At the invitation of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to Kazakhstan. This event is significant since the leader of such great country, as China, the second time will arrive in our republic. This proves that our countries plan to be long-term strategic partners.

Chairman of "Samruk-Kazyna" National Welfare Fund Kairat Kelimbetov

shared his view on this theme with Kazinform correspondent. ...

Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev has arrived in Tashkent to take part in the Summit of the SCO Council of Presidents.

Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev met the Kazakh Leader at Tashkent-2 airport.

On the second half of the day N. Nazarbayev is expected to meet with his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Besides, N. Nazarbayev will attend a festive concert of masters of art that will be held in Uzbekistan Palace

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Expectations are running high for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit to take a tougher role in combating security threats and deepening economic cooperation among its members; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

President Hu Jintao will make new proposals on increasing security and economic cooperation within the SCO framework during the summit to be held on June 10 and 11 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Hu's new proposals aim to

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International information security problems will be high on the agenda of the 6th Eurasian Forum to open in Moscow on Thursday, June 10; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

Delegations from more than 10 European and Asian countries will discuss ways to protect information in different spheres of life. The forum has been organised with the support and assistance of the State Duma SecurityCommittee, the Ministry of Mass Communications, the Foreign Ministry, the Interior Ministry, and the non-

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New Japanese leader Naoto Kan vowed to tackle Japan's huge public debt and keep ties with ally Washington on track as he launched a cabinet that also aims to sideline a scandal-tainted party power broker before an election; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

The choice of Kan, 63, as Japan's fifth premier in three years, has bolstered his Democratic Party's chances in an upper house election it needs to win to break free of a tiny partner and avoid having to find more allies to pass bill

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As is known, Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev participated yesterday, June 8, in the III CICA Summit in Istanbul. Kazinform disseminates the text of the President's statement at the summit with a reference to the press service of the Kazakh MFA

Your Excellencies,

Distinguished Heads of the State and Government,

Leaders of international organizations,

Ladies and gentlemen!

First off, let me cordially thank President of Turkey His Excell

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A Russian ship once used to transport nuclear waste sank last month at a shipyard in northern Russia, the yard's senior engineer said on Tuesday; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

He added there was no danger of radioactive contamination as it was not carrying nuclear waste at the time.

"We were scrapping it and cutting the ship but the metal gave in and it sank," Vladimir Smirnov, engineer at the Russian navy's SRZ-10 plant in Polyarny, a town on the Kola Penins...

Vietnam and Iraq have become full members of the CICA and Bangladesh has gained the status of observer.

"The CICA acquires features which allow to transform it into an organization for cooperation and security in Asia. I welcome accession of Vietnam and Iraq to the CICA, and gaining the status of observer by Bangladesh. Our Forum unites 22 states which cover over 90 percent of the territory of Asia", President Nursultan Nazarbayev said openin

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President Nursultan Nazarbayev will take part in the III CICA Summit of Heads of State and Government in Istanbul.

For the first time the Summit will be held outside Kazakhstan. It is planned to sign a Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Secretariat, its staff and representatives of the CICA member states and adopt a political declaration. Besides, Vietnam and Iraq are expected to become full members of the CICA and Bangladesh as observe

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Finance ministers from all 16 Eurozone countries (Eurogroup) approved on Monday Estonia's accession to the single currency in 2011, Eurogroup head and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker said.

"Estonia will become the 17th member of the Eurozone from January 1, 2011," Junker told journalists.

The Baltic state was given the green light to join the single currency on May 12.

European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said the c...

While hiring in Silicon Valley is projected to surge for the remainder of the year, companies are finding competition for talent from across the Pacific in China. As the Chinese tech industry continues to grow in areas such as Internet communications and content sharing, increasing numbers of industry professionals are considering a move east; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

During a recent visit to San Francisco, Dr Kai Fu Lee, the former head of Google China, urged venture capitalis

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French Defense Minister Herve Morin, who wrapped up a two-day visit to the Kingdom on Sunday, said Saudi Arabia has shown interest in acquiring satellites "to develop an autonomous capacity of observation"; Kazinform refers to The Arab News.

Speaking at a news conference at the Royal Terminal at King Khaled International Airport here, the minister said his country has the needed facilities as well as the experts for the transfer of such technology to the Kingdom. In addition,

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Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said on Sunday that his country will reject an international commission to probe its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that killed nine international volunteers; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

"We are rejecting an international commission. We are discussing with the Obama administration a way in which our inquiry will take place," Oren said on Fox News Channel.

"Israel is a democracy. Israel has the abilit

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The upcoming visit of Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao to Central Asian region is of great importance for stimulation of sustainable, healthy and stable development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as well as for development of China-Kazakhstan and China-Uzbekistan bilateral relations. Assistant  Minister of Foreign Affairs  of China Cheng Guoping said it Friday, June 4.

"China considers Uzbekistan an...

The president of the UN Security Council, Claude Heller, said on Friday that the 15-nation body will meet over the Republic of Korea (ROK)'s warship sinking case.

"I will initiate consultations with members of the Security Council in order to give an appropriate answer to this request," Heller told reporters here after receiving a letter from the ROK UN ambassador.

Heller said that as president of the Security Council, he will circula

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BP on Thursday began attaching a cap to a blown-out well on the seabed in its latest attempt to control the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Live video footage provided by the London-based energy giant showed the cap over the oil leaking from a severed oil pipe Tuesday night.

Earlier in the day, BP CEO Tony Hayward announced that the company had crossed a "milestone" by slicing off the remains of th

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 Naoto Kan is to be Japan's next prime minister as he won an overwhelming victory in the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election Friday, Kazinform refers to Trend News.

Kan served as finance minister and deputy prime minister in prime minister Yukio Hatoyama's cabinet.

The selection is tantamount to picking a prime minister, as the party has a majority in the more powerful lower house, which chooses the prime minister,

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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have held a telephone conversation to discuss the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme and prospects for the fulfilment of the fuel swap scheme for the Tehran research reactor, the RF Foreign Ministry reported on Friday, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

"They exchanged views on the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme in the context of the work

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The upcoming visit of Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao to Central Asian region is of great importance for stimulation of sustainable, healthy and stable development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as well as for development of China-Kazakhstan and China-Uzbekistan bilateral relations. Assistant of Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheng Guoping said it Friday, June 4.

"China considers Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan good n

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The Moscow schoolboy who jumped out of the window of a 7th floor apartment to his death on Monday, "showed anxiety regarding the taking of examinations and voiced suicidal thoughts to his parents, an investigator told Itar-Tass on Wednesday; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

"A check ascertained that on May 31, a 16-year-old schoolboy of 11th form took the Unified State Examination, whose results are yet to be released. The adolescent voiced his thoughts about suicide to his fat

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The European Commission Wednesday proposed to set up a new regulatory body to oversee credit rating agencies as part of its effort to tighten supervision of the financial system; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

According to the proposal, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), will be responsible for the registration and date-to-day supervision of credit rating agencies. And the ESMA will also have the power to temporarily prohibit the agencies from issuing credit ratings and

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Landing capsule of the Soyuz TMA-17 spaceship with three cosmonauts inside landed at 07:25 Moscow daylight saving time /03:25 GMT/ in the designated landing area located to the southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

It brought to the Earth the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, the U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer and the Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi after a 163-days-long mission at the International Space Stat

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