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Nazarbayev received medal dated for 10 anniversary of capital

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has been awarded the medal 10-year anniversary of Astana dated for the 10th anniversary of the capital of Kazakhstan, the agency reports.

Astana. June 30. Kazakhstan Today - The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has been awarded the medal 10-year anniversary of Astana dated for the 10th anniversary of the capital of Kazakhstan, the agency reports.

On behalf of the government of the republic the medal to the leader of the state was presented to by the Prime Minister Karim Masimov.

"On behalf of your colleagues and assistants I would like to present you the medal, as to the main founder of Astana and Kazakhstan," the Prime Minister said. "Independence of Kazakhstan is associated with your name and your decision accepted on July 6, 1994 on shifting the capital was symbolic," he noted addressing the President.

The medal 10-year anniversary of Astana - the state award of Kazakhstan instituted according to the president's decree on May 6, 2008 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Astana.

As it was informed earlier, Kazakhstan for the first time will celebrate Day of Capital as the state holiday on July 6. In 2008 there will be 10-year anniversary of the date of carrying over the capital from Almaty to Astana.

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