Kazakh Embassy presents President?s Message in Paris
09:42, 30 March 2009
ASTANA. March 30. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan's Embassy held a presentation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev?s Message to the Nation to political, business, academic circles and mass media in Paris on March 26; Kazinform refers to the Kazakh MFA?s press service.
Kazakh Ambassador Murat Tashibayev while speaking at the event noted that Kazakhstan was among the first countries which responded to the growing turbulence of the world economy, and made anti-recessionary steps. He told about the economic part of the Message and the principal infrastructural and investment projects and emphasized that despite the crisis Kazakhstan would not change the conceptual basis of its foreign policy and would fulfill its international commitments.
Representatives of the French Foreign Ministry noted that the Message of President Nazarbayev contained timely and efficient anti-crisis measures, particularly in the banking sphere. They praised the Government?s efforts to develop the manufacturing sectors of economy,?Bolashak? education program, and Kazakhstan's achievements in the international arena.
French professor Albert Fishler also underlined the importance of the measures taken by Kazakhstan to stabilize the economy of Central Asia and the right course of Kazakhstan's development which will allow avoiding the "Dutch disease".