Nearly 2 000 Kazakhstanis die abroad over 3 past years: Kazakh FM
15:15, 19 December 2013
ASTANA. December 19. KAZINFORM According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, nearly two thousand citizens of Kazakhstan died abroad over the last three years.
The information was revealed by the Head of the Foreign Office, Erlan Idrissov at the Thursday press conference in Astana.
"Over the past three years, according to our data, nearly two thousand citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan died abroad. 95% of them passed away in the CIS member countries. Returns for deceased persons were not always appropriate, since majority of them permanently resided outside Kazakhstan," Minister Idrissov added.