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National Bank chairman to take part in meeting of Council of board of WB, IMF - MFA

The delegation of Kazakhstan headed by the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Anvar Saydenov took part in the annual meeting of the Council of the board of World Bank and IMF on October 19-22.

Astana. October 24. Kazakhstan Today - The delegation of Kazakhstan headed by the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Anvar Saydenov took part in the annual meeting of the Council of the board of World Bank and IMF on October 19-22. The Kazakhstan MFA official representative Yerzhan Ashikbayev informed on Monday during the traditional briefing in Astana.

"The peculiarity of the event of this year is the recent change of the management of WB and IMF and in this connection the increased interest to the future strategy of both international institutions," the diplomat noted.

The President of the World Bank Robert Zellik took up his duties in July, 2007. In September of 2007, the ex-Minister of Finance of France Dominic Kane was appointed for the post of the Managing Director of IMF and will take up his duties for five years' term since November 1, 2007.

According to Y. Ashikbayev, the main agenda of the meeting includes discussion of strategic directions of the work of the Group of the World Bank, the questions of development of global economy and financial markets, performance of the program of IMF reforms. The main event became the session of the committee on development of the bank.

During the visit of the Kazakhstan delegation to the USA the Kazakhstan embassy in Washington in cooperation with the Regional financial center of Almaty held the reception, on which the presentation of the financial sector of Kazakhstan took place.

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