In his State of the Nation Address President Nazarbayev instructed his Government to make sure 1.5 million people get new jobs within the Employment Program before 2020.
When speaking at a solemn meeting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the nation’s independence, Nazarbayev said that the Address would focus on social modernization.
BTA announced its plans of the second debt restructuring in December 2011. Its main shareholder – Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund – voiced its support to the proposed debt restructuring.
We are a nation where half of population live in rural areas and we are still not capable of meeting the internal demand for agricultural produce: T. Kulibayev.