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President Seeks More Jobs, Aid to Most Vulnerable, Better Conditions For +33° / +20°C WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2019 No 14 (176) www.astanatimes.com Nationwide clean-up effort nets more Tokayev establishes National than 15,000 tonnes of garbage Council to strengthen public’s By Aidana Yergaliyeva NUR-SULTAN – A one-day, engagement in reform agenda nation-wide volunteer effort to Ashimbaev, Andrei Chebotarev clean parks, ponds, riverbanks and By Aidana Yergaliyeva and Rasul Zhumaly, among others. coastal regions on July 27 collect- The National Council also in- ed 15,044 tonnes of garbage across NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Presi- cludes commissioners for human 4,071 hectares of land, Minister of dent Kassym-Jomart Tokayev rights in Kazakhstan, for chil- Ecology, Geology and Natural Re- established July 17 the National dren’s rights and the ombudsman sources Magzum Mirzagaliyev an- Council of Public Trust to make for the protection of entrepreneurs. nounced July 28 via Twitter. government more responsive to A full list of members can be found Approximately 197,000 people the people. on the Akorda (presidential resi- participated in the clean-up that The National Council is an advi- dence) website. rallied under the Twitter hashtags sory body to the President and will “We can say (they are) leaders of #Birge #TazaQazaqstan (#Togeth- make public policy recommenda- public opinion. That is, according er #CleanKazakhstan). tions after broad discussion with to the composition of the National “I sincerely thank everyone representatives of the public, po- Council, we see that these are all who participated in the #Birge litical parties and civil society. the people that have been very #TazaQazaqstan environmental The council includes 44 public active in Kazakh platforms in re- clean-up campaign! The action figures, civil society activists, hu- cent years. It can be in social net- should not be a one-off. I urge man rights activists and journal- works, platforms for dialogue, ex- everyone to follow this tradition ists. pert communities. That is, people further to inculcate a culture of Tokayev will chair the council. with a very active civic stand. The separate garbage collection to their Presidential Administration Head National Council of Public Trust compatriots,” said the minister. Krymbek Kusherbayev is deputy is a kind of permanent dialogue The Karaganda Region collected chair, while Presidential Advisor platform,” Kazakhstan Institute the most trash at 4,110 tonnes, fol- astana.gov.kz. Photo credit: Yerlan Karin is the secretary of the for Strategic Studies International lowed by the Kyzylorda Region at council. Studies Department Head Assel 4,106 and the Akmola Region at More than 5,000 Nur-Sultan said Kulginov during the July 27 great! More of these campaigns to- Among the members are candi- Nazarbetova told 24.kz. 1,885. residents collected more than 16 clean-up in Nur-Sultan. gether we will keep the cleanliness dates from the June 9 presidential The council selected its mem- Mirzagaliyev launched an ear- tonnes of garbage on the shores Among participants were repre- and ecology of our city. We’ll start election Dania Yespaeva, Tole- bers “taking into account how long lier and similar clean-up July 20 at of Lake Maibalyk, the coastal ter- sentatives of state and public or- here, then more and more,” said utai Rakhimbekov and Zhambyl they were engaged in the actuali- the Koyandy reservoir. More than ritory of the Vyacheslav reservoir ganisations, students, volunteers, participant Chingiz Albekov. Akhmetbekov. The council also sation of certain problems,” said 1,200 people collected more than and along the banks of the Karasu public figures, government mem- Kazakh President Kassym- includes public figures such as Karin at a July 17 press briefing. 10 tonnes of garbage that day. Ka- and Yessil rivers. bers and the capital akimat em- Jomart Tokayev also supported the political scientist and BTS Digital “We have a lot of so-called situ- zakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin “Despite the fact that today is a ployees. campaign. Chair Sayasat Nurbek, Kazakhstan ational leaders who appear today, also took part in the event. day off, many people have come “It’s great that most people take “We strongly support the eco- Media Alliance CEO Armanzhan raise some questions, and tomor- “Last week this campaign was to support the eco-campaign and part in the clean-up event. Espe- challenge movement that has Baitassov, lawyer Ayman Omaro- row they disappear abruptly from initiated by our government, now it help clean up debris from the ter- cially that there are many young spread throughout the country at va, activist Mukhtar Taizhan, the informational, social and po- is a large-scale national campaign ritories. Thank you for not being people. This shows our unity and the initiative of the government journalist Mikhail Dorofeyev, as litical field. We cannot rely on #Birge #TazaQazaqstan. I think indifferent. We need to protect solidarity,” said Minister of Labour and civil society. Turn the coun- well as political scientists Aidos them,” Karin added. it is a very wonderful start,” said our nature. We love to relax in the and Social Protection Berdibek Sa- try into a territory of cleanliness. Sarym, Oraz Dzhandosov, Daniyar Continued on Page A2 Nur-Sultan Akim (Mayor) Altay fresh air; likewise, we have to love parbayev. Bіrge – Taza Kazakhstan! Well Kulginov, reports the capital aki- to clean up after ourselves. Clean- “This gives an opportunity to done volunteers!” Tokayev said mat (administration) press service. liness must begin with oneself,” unite, do one thing. I think this is July 25 via Twitter. Kazpost delivers cutting-edge President seeks more jobs, aid to most services after transformation elled 16 days to reach certain lo- By Aidana Yergaliyeva calities, but Kazpost has reduced vulnerable, better conditions for business maximum delivery time within the During the years of industrialisa- a one-time nature,” said Tokayev. a nearby weapons depot which NUR-SULTAN – Kazpost, which country to four-six days. The ex- By Aidana Yergaliyeva tion, more than 1,200 enterprises “But what we have announced to caused the evacuation of a town began updating all of its services pedited distribution is the result of were commissioned, new jobs all the people must be completed of 40,000. Tokayev demanded and processes five years ago, has entirely revised activities, such as NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Presi- were created, new productions ap- on time and efficiently.” from the Ministry of Defence to seen a tremendous spurt in develop- a new sorting line with round-the- dent Kassym-Jomart Tokayev re- peared, which were not there be- The effort under the decree will complete the work on the trans- ment. Kazpost Chair Saken Sarse- clock processing and a capacity viewed July 15 Kazakhstan’s 2019 fore. However, the external and be in two parts. The first is to verify fer of military warehouses further nov spoke with The Astana Times of 6,500 departures per hour, new socio-economic development ef- internal competitiveness of Ka- the population segment that should away from the living areas as soon about the company’s achievements fulfilment centres in the capital, forts as he chaired the expanded zakhstan enterprises remains low,” receive the support. Kazakh Na- as possible. To avoid such inci- in e-commerce, privatisation in Almaty and Aktobe, increase in air session of the Government, the first Tokayev said. tional Bank and the Ministry of dents in the future, the President 2020, using drones to reach remote transport deliveries and automatis- under his presidency. He directed Salaries in numerous sectors in Labour and Social Protection com- instructed the new specially es- villages and efforts to reduce the ing processes like receiving, sorting government agencies to increase Kazakhstan have increased since pleted the work in July. tablished commission to strictly ecological impact of its vehicles. and issuing parcels. incomes, create jobs, improve land the beginning of the year, includ- The second part is signing pre- punish “all those guilty” in the “Yes, it really was the old postal “For example, starting this year, use, and work on better investment ing a 30 percent increase for public liminary contracts between sec- incident by providing submissions system, the old infrastructure with when our operators accept a pack- climate, among other actions. sector workers. ond-tier banks and microfinance to the Presidential Administration the Soviet processes. (Until five age, they no longer manually en- “Increasing the income of the The President also urged offi- organisations and the Problem and the Security Council. These years ago), nothing had changed. ter the data of all customers each population is our main job. (There cials to move forward on his June Loan Fund. This work started in will include all those officials, (In updating the work of the postal time; the information is automati- is a) growth of 6 percent, but 26 decree providing immediate late July and will be completed including civil servants, who ir- service), we moved in two direc- cally self-filled. This reduced the you cannot stop there. Sanctions, debt relief to some of the country’s before the end of the month, ac- responsibly gave permission for tions – we changed the processes time to receiving packages and protectionism also influence the most vulnerable groups. cording to Kazakh National Bank construction in the immediate vi- themselves, then automatised and correspondences by 40 percent,” development of our country. In- “This work should be kept under Chair Yerbolat Dossayev. cinity of high-risk facilities. digitised (them),” he said. he said. ternational experts talk about the constant control by the govern- As for the situation in Arys, Tokayev also spoke of the need Several years ago, parcels trav- Continued on Page A5 unstable situation in the world. ment, the Administration of the the state allocated the Turkestan for reforms in public administra- Therefore, we should consider the President.
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