Kazakhstan to continue realization of promising investment projects - President
12:25, 6 March 2009
ASTANA. March 6. KAZINFORM /Valentina Yelizarova/ ?Our future depends on further modernization of economy, development of basic infrastructure?, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has said delivering his annual Address to the Nation at the joint sitting of the Houses of the Parliament today, Kazinform reports.
According to the President, this regards first of all the projects on modernization of oil refineries. ?We have three oil processing enterprises at present. It?s a shame that we import oil and do not provide the country with jet fuel!? N. Nazarbayev noted. ?We should work on this issue and begin to lower this dependence. Construction of an oil and gas complex in Atyrau and implementation of the projects on energy industry will be continued?, the President added.
As the Head of the State explained, reconstruction of Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station would be continued and construction of Balkhash Thermal Power Plant would be started this year.