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Following the results of the tenders of the actions at the Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) on February 11, 2008 KASE index increased by 46.57 items (1.8 %) - from 2578.98 up to 2625.55, the agency reports.

In Kazakhstan GDP growth in 2008 is forecasted to reach the level of 5 %. The Minister of Economics Bakhyt Sultanov said today at the Ministry of Economics and Budgetary Planning.

The National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan fixed the foreign currency exchange rates to the tenge for February 13:

The second session of the Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will be held in Astana. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbayev informed on Monday at the briefing, the agency reports.

The carrier rocket Proton-M with Norwegian satellite Top-2Р has been launched from Baikonur, the agency reports referring to the source at the cosmodrome.

Kazakhstan -American initiative of state-private partnership, which will start in spring of 2008, "should give new impulse to trade and economic cooperation.

The administration of the president of Kazakhstan will be modernized within the limits of the administrative reform, the agency reports referring to the president's press service.

Astana akimat has undergone personnel rearrangements, the agency reports referring to the press service of Astana akim.

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the President of Israel Shimon Peres held telephone conversation by the initiative of the Israeli party on Monday, the agency reports referring to the president's press service.

The USA supports Kazakhstan developing program - Way to Europe.

Yerzhan Kazyhanov has been appointed the assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the decree of the leader of the state, the agency reports referring to the president's press service on Monday.

The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov will visit the United Arab Emirates on February 16. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbayev informed at the briefing on Monday, the agency reports.

Average weighted rate of KZT on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) decreased by 0.02 on Tuesday against Monday and totaled KZT 120.37 per dollar.

Following the results of fixing at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on February 12, value of KazPrime indicator increased by 1 item and made 11.21 % annual on KASE, the agency reports.

The chairman of the board of the Fund of Steady Development Kazyna Armand Dunayev calls structural divisions of the fund for more transparency to the society, he stated at the session of the board on Monday, the agency reports.

The project of creation of the uniform automated system of distribution of medicines to the state medical institutions is being developed by the initiative of the Fund of Steady Development Kazyna.

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev received the Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher in Akorda on Monday, the agency reports referring to the president's press service.