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PM, Roskosmos Chairman to discuss space program

Petropavlovsk. August 10. Kazakhstan Today - Tomorrow, August 11, Premier of Kazakhstan Daniyal Akhmetov at the meeting in Astana with Roskosmos Chairman Anatoliy Perminov will consider prospects of realization of the space program. Kazakh PM stated today during visiting Petropavlovsk Plant of Heavy Mechanical Engineering in North Kazakhstan oblast, the agency reports.

The arrangement on participation of Petropavlovsk Plant in realization of Bayterek space-rocket complex projects and aviation space-rocket complex Ishim was reached in April, 2006.

As it was informed earlier, PM in the first half of the day visited the plant. It produces the equipment for oil and petroleum-refining industry. PM familiarized with the program of industrially-innovative development of the factory and discussed with akim Tair Mansurov and Director Albert Akeev the opportunity of participation in the space program.

The project Bayterek assumes creation of space-rocket complex on the basis of heavy carrier rocket Angara.

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