Heads of new ministries of Kazakhstan appointed

print version send link by email
14:50 12.03.2010
text: "Kazakhstan Today"
views: [578]

Astana. March 12. Kazakhstan Today - The heads of the new ministries of Kazakhstan have been appointed. The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, informed today at the meeting with the akims of the areas and Astana and Almaty cities concerning realization of the program of the forced industrially-innovative development of Kazakhstan until 2014, the agency reports.

Sauat Mynbaev, who earlier headed Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, have been appointed Minister of Oil and Gas.

Aset Isekeshev has been appointed Minister of Industry and New Technologies. He has also been allocated with the powers of Assistant Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.

Zhanar Aytzhanova has been appointed Minister of Economic Development and Commerce, which will be created on the basis of the Ministry of Economy and Budgetary Planning. Bahyt Sultanov has been dismissed from the post of Minister of Economy and Budgetary Planning.

The Ministry of Communications and Information will be headed by Askar Zhumagaliev, who earlier held the post of head of Kazakhtelecom.