Digital satellite television implementation is Kazakhstan's great achievement - President
18:08, 18 January 2011
ASTANA. January 18. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Implementation of the digital satellite television is a great achievement of Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said it at the ceremony of launch of the National satellite broadcast network in Astana today.
"I am glad that today we witness the implementation of the digital satellite television. We have worked on this issue for many years", N. Nazarbayev said.
Henceforth those citizens living in remote settlements will be able to watch the national TV programs together with the whole country, he added.
The President stressed, that the implementation of the project had been carried out under the forced industrialization program.