Gulbanu ABENOVA
ALMATY, Jan7 (THE GLOBE)
�I shall not apply back for the government seat after dissolution of the Cabinet�, stated the Vice-Prime Minister of the RK in Almaty on the 6th of January. However, Baltash Tursymbayev admitted that he would accept a high post if he were offered after the elections. At the same time, he is sure that the community will elect Nursultan Nazarbayev. Still, Mr. Tursymbayev thinks that he was doing well in his office. �I do not need any high post, however if they need me I will think it over�, is his opinion concerning possibility of his appointment the Prime Minister of the new Government. As for the Kazak economy, he said of the whole, �We cannot fall deeper as we are on the very bottom of the fall. So, we have to clamber up and find a way out.� Judging by Almaty, the economy is developing well. And yet, if you look at thousands of villages inhabited with our citizens and brothers, the impression is rather a stressing� he noticed.
Having compared political situation in Kazakstan with that in the Central-Asian republics, Mr. Tursymbayev stressed, �in comparison to Uzbek and Turkmen Republics, our democracy is satisfactory.� �There can be neither half-democracy nor half-truth�, the Vice-Prime Minister believes.
Banu MARAT
ALMATY, Jan 6 (THE GLOBE)
In the southern capital of Kazakstan on January 6 Joint Venture Skoda-Kazakstan started assembling, and later on it is planed to produce, trolley-buses Skoda.
Press service of JSC Skoda got out this information. The President of Kazakstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, Director General of JSC Skoda Lyubomir Soudek and Charge de Affairs of the Czech Republic Alexander Langer were present at the solemn opening ceremony.
JV Skoda-Kazakstan has already supplied 30 trolley-buses to Almaty and by the end of the year it is planned to assemble 30 trolley-buses.
As informed by representatives of the JV, at the first stage production of trolley-buses shall be adjusted to domestic needs of Kazakstan. However, the JV plans to export its products to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan since 2001 and to Mongolia, China and Russia since 2003.
JSC Skoad Plzen is one of the largest machine-building enterprises in the Czech Republic, which annual turnover comprises up to $1 bln 300 mln.
JV Skoda-Kazakstan is the third joint venture to produce trolley-buses in the world after US joint venture (Baltimor) and Russian one (Volgorgad).