Unemployment to reduce in late 2009, Vice PM

ASTANA. June 8. KAZINFORM /Aigul Tulekbayeva/ The unemployment rates have stabilized at 7.2 percent and will decline by the end of the year, Kazakhstan Vice Prime Minister Yerbol Orynbayev states; Kazinform reports.

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According to the Vice Prime Minister, from the beginning of the year the unemployment in the country has increased from 6.6 percent to 7.2 percent. ?As per the President's assignment, the employment strategy was lauched in May 1, and we can forecast stabilization at 7.2 percent, with some reduction by the end of the year?, Y. Orynbayev said at the session in Akorda. Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev stated that the unemployment measures including memorandums on Kazakhstani content in public purchases and tenders, and the funds allocated for community services held down the growth of unemployment.