AIDS awareness expedition arrives in Astana

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13:48 05.07.2004
text: "Kazakhstan Today"
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A humanitarian automobile expedition headed by a German extreme athlete Joachim Franz, has arrived in Astana today, July 5, KZ-today correspondent reports from the capital.

"The expedition aims to unite world countries in fighting the AIDS," - J. Franz said to Kazakhstani journalists at a press conference.

He said that the expedition had started June 25 in Hanover, Germany. The race proceeds from Germany through Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kazachstan to Kyrgyzstan. - The objective is to ascend to the Victory Peak (the highest peak in the Tian Shan mountain range). A red ribbon will be erected on the peak as a sign of the expedition and a symbol of fighting against the AIDS. There are signatures of governments of the countries already visited by the expedition on that red ribbon.