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ASTANA (TCA) — Construction works at a new railway station of Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, will be completed on May 15 and it will be launched on June 1, before the opening of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana this summer, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — At a press conference in Astana on April 3, Wizz Air, the largest low-cost air carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, announced the launch of a new air service between Astana and the Hungarian capital, Budapest, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — As the Syria peace talks in Astana have given more international exposure to Kazakhstan as a player in the region wider than Central Asia, we are republishing this article by George Voloshin, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry on March 9 said that the next international meeting on Syria within the framework of the Astana Process will be held on March 14-15 in the capital of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — During her working visit to Kazakhstan on February 9, Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator, Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS and UN Commissioner-General in EXPO-2017, signed an agreement of participation of the UN in EXPO-2017 in Astana with Akhmetzhan Yessimov, chairman of Astana EXPO-2017 National Company JSC Board. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Is Astana going to become a regular meeting point for squabbling parties in troubled corners of the world, shooting it out at home but inclined to compromise to spare lives and economies? The results of the talks on the situation in Syria, which ended with mostly a confirmation of the status quo excluding any outlook of a longer-term political situation in Syria, are an ambiguous indication of such a prospect. UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura was quoted as stating: "Kazakhstan, under the leadership of President (Nursultan) Nazarbayev, has provided a remarkable contribution to our efforts to push for peace in Syria." Continue reading
