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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan created a joint center for emergency response and disaster risk reduction.

Kazakhstan residents drink 4 times more beer than Kyrgyzs. Kyrgyzstan residents drank 49.8 million liters of beer in 2010, which is 47 percent of the total volume of alcohol consumption.

More than 1400 military men from Kazakhstan, the United States, Great Britain, Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan are taking part in the event.

The earthquake was felt near Almaty at 2:52 a.m. local time. No damage or casualties have been reported.

The regular flights aboard AN-24 [capable of carrying 46 passengers] will be performed twice a week throughout the high tourist season. A return ticket will cost $226.

Over 35 thousand Kazakhstan tourists traveled to Kyrgyzstan in June, this is 35-40 percent higher than in 2010.

June 17, 2010 Vice Head of the Kyrgyz Interim Government Azimbek Beknazarov stated that in the nearest future he was to prepare a document to nationalize the four resorts earlier transferred to Kazakhstan.

The two nations have agreed to establish a joint venture fund of $100 million.

Besides, at today’s meeting of the Kyrgyz Government with the Kazakh delegation the sides discussed a possible joint investment fund of $100 million.

Executives of Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund will be visiting Kyrgyzstan within a few days.

China is planning to establish two free economic zones in Kashgar and Khorgos to boost trade turnover.

Kazakhstan is hosting its first international poker series. If the debut is successful Kazakhstan could become a Central Asian poker Mecca.

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Kyrgyzstan in August 2011.

Central Asian countries are considered to be a high seismic risk zone and 6-7 magnitude quakes are possible in the area in the coming years.
President Roza Otunbayeva said Kyrgyzstan must learn from the ethnic clashes that left hundreds dead last year.

Kazakhstan is planning to invest into Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz-Kazakh investment fund will be created in Kyrgyzstan with the capital of $100 million.

The budget of Astana is larger than the budget of Kyrgyzstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Vice-Minister of Industry and New Technologies called to limit consumption of electricity imported from Kyrgyzstan.

430.5 million kW/hours of electric power was exported to Astana from Kyrgyzstan; this accounts for 89 percent of the export from Kyrgyzstan.
An official meeting of Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov with his counterparts from Kyrgyzstan, China and Tajikistan was held in Almaty.
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