+27° / +12°C WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 No 13 (175) www.astanatimes.com Nur-Sultan hosts capital day celebrations, EU announces raises money for Arys assistance new programmes in Central Asia strategy takes effect, and it calls By Elya Altynsarina for ensuring the integrity, visu- alisation and visual perception of NUR-SULTAN – The European EU-CA cooperation,” said Foreign Union’s political commitment and Minister of Kazakhstan Beibut a set of European Union-funded re- Atamkulov at the 15th EU-Central gional programmes were announced Asia Ministerial on July 7. during a recent high-level meeting He said he was pleased Kazakh- in Bishkek between Central Asian stan’s proposals on women entre- ministers of foreign affairs and preneurship, small- and medium- Representative for Foreign Affairs sized businesses, transport and and Security Policy/Vice-President logistics infrastructure, energy of the European Commission Fed- efficiency, environmental protec- erica Mogherini. The announcement tion, combating climate change, marks the official start of the imple- and rational use of water resourc- mentation of the European Union’s es, education and digitisation were new Strategy on Central Asia. reflected in the document. In addition to the existing $1.12 Earlier in its statement, the Ka- billion bilateral and regional as- zakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs sistance for the period 2014-2020, welcomed the decision by the programmes within those worth European Council to adopt the $80.7 billion, the amount available strategy and noted that Kazakh- for the overall international devel- stan equally shares the conceptual opment assistance by the EU to the foundations of the document where world, will also benefit sustainable “sustainability” and “prosperity” development, economic empower- are given a special importance. ment, anti-terrorism efforts, edu- The country sees the new strategy cation, and intra-regional trade in as a potential for bringing EU-CA Central Asia and Afghanistan. relations to a new level, according “Kazakhstan stands for the ef- to the ministry’s statement. fective use of the tools of EU-Cen- tral Asia relations as the new EU Continued on Page A2 Capital Day celebrations See story on Page B8 Parliament adopts 2019-2021 national Jusan operation sets budget, plans to visit regions example for other laws on healthcare, circulation of Independent States in combating initiated by deputies of Parliament, By Saltanat Boteu medicines and medical devices, information technology crimes, the such as on issues of enforcement regarding employment and amend- Kazakhstan-Ukraine treaty on ex- proceedings and the provision of countries, says UN official NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Mazhi- ments on housing relations. tradition, amendments to the agree- public services. ing comprehensive assistance lis (lower house of Parliament) The chair stressed that the most ment between Kazakhstan and Kyr- According to Nigmatulin, depu- By Assel Satubaldina to the children and women re- Chair Nurlan Nigmatulin summed important laws adopted during the gyzstan on border crossing points, ties of both houses of Parliament turned from the zone of the con- up July 5 the work of the deputies in session were the national budget for amendments to the convention on sent 319 deputy requests to the NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s flict, while the men are being the fourth session of the sixth convo- 2019-2021, which primarily focuses information access and public par- Government over the past session. Jusan operation, which returned prosecuted for participating in cation at the joint meeting of cham- on social tasks’ implementation. ticipation in the decision-making The Parliament received approxi- nearly 600 citizens from Syria, a foreign war. The efforts set an bers of Parliament in the capital. The The redistribution of the ex- process on matters relating to the mately 7,000 appeals from citizens is an excellent example for other unprecedented example, though Parliament adopted social and eco- penditure side of the budget was environment. during the session, all of which countries to follow, said United “risking quite a lot of problems,” nomic legislation and the national carried out in the following areas. The Chairman of the Majilis noted were considered in accordance with Nations Committee on the Rights Winter said. budget for 2019-2021. The Parliament allocated 89.2 bil- the law on the transfer of functions of the legislation. The deputies visited of the Child Chair Renate Win- “Jumping into cold water with- lion tenge (US$232.19 million) for central and local executive bodies to a more than 2,000 settlements. Nigmatulin stressed that during ter in an exclusive interview with out any experience in dealing the work of the session, the depu- implementation of the presidential competitive environment, which ex- The chair also mentioned other is- The Astana Times. with such difficult, really diffi- ties focused primarily on the strate- decree on measures to reduce the pands the ability of citizens to partici- sues to be solved. Among them are During several stages of the gic guidelines formulated by First debt burden of citizens of Kazakh- pate in the decision-making process the lack of effectiveness in planning cult cases, difficult situations and humanitarian operation, conduct- Kazakh President Nursultan Naz- stan, who find themselves in a dif- through the development of a self- the legislative work of the govern- getting people home, no other arbayev at the opening session in ficult life situation, 138.6 billion government system. ment. He said that the bills received ed from January through June, country has done that in such an September last year and his state-of- tenge (US$360.77 million) for the “Every law gives impetus to the from the government do not meet a total of 595 Kazakh citizens, amount and so quickly as Ka- the-nation address to the people of expansion of existing measures to development of our country and the high requirements. He also drew including 406 children, among zakhstan. When other countries Kazakhstan. provide employment and support the improvement of the quality of attention to the late submission of them 31 orphans, 156 women also started to do it, it was slowly The initiative of Kazakh President for low-income, large families and life of the population. And most conclusions by the government to and 33 men were returned to the and reluctantly, but Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on state young people, 72.2 billion tenge importantly, every adopted law is the amendments of the deputies. country. The name of the opera- went and did it. For that, I think support of the socially vulnerable (US$187.93 million) to increase designed to support and protect all After the session is closed, parlia- tion, Jusan, is translated as bitter one really has to congratulate population gave an additional impe- the reserve of the government, part citizens,” said Nigmatulin. mentarians will travel to the regions wormwood from Kazakh. It re- somebody and, in this case, Ka- tus to the legislative activity, he said. of which will be sent to eliminate He also noted the deputies not to meet with the public. fers to a plant widely spread in zakhstan,” she added. Among the economic laws re- consequences of an emergency situ- only work with government bills, “The session ends, but there are the Kazakh steppes and its spe- The majority of the returnees viewed and adopted for the im- ation in Arys. but also exercise their right of leg- trips to the regions to meet with the cific and pleasant smell is syn- are children and the operation plementation of these large-scale President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev islative initiative. In particular, the population. The proposals that will onymous for Kazakhs with their also included their mothers. initiatives are laws on economic signed the bill into law on July 5. deputies initiated laws on the activi- be made during these meetings, we ancestral home. issues such as on natural monopo- Along with the adoption of ties of organisations performing the should take into account in our fur- The country has been provid- Continued on Page B2 lies, on standardisation, on special budgetary amendments, Mazhilis functions of protecting the rights of ther legislative work. Such meetings economic and industrial zones and deputies started work on new leg- children, as well as on the civil ser- are an important part of our work. on transport issues. islation, including an agreement on vice and combating corruption. Feedback from the population is very Among social legislations are cooperation of the Commonwealth The deputies are working on bills important for us,” said Nigmatulin. Lutsenko wins gold in Kazakhstan ratifies Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The treaty must be signed and session of the United Nations Gen- stacked papers with signatures individual, group races at By Dilshat Zhussupova ratified by at least 50 countries to eral Assembly and received the reaching the office ceiling.” come into effect. Seventy countries Nuclear-Free Future Award Oct. Kazakhstan recently assumed the NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Presi- have signed the treaty and 24 have 24 from the Franz Moll Foundation chairmanship of the 48-member dent Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ratified it. Kazakhstan signed and for the Coming Generations. multilateral export control regime cycling championships signed the law July 3 ratifying the ratified the treaty March 2, 2018 “It really was an honour to par- Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Championships individual race in Treaty on the Prohibition of Nu- and July 3, respectively. ticipate in the anti-nuclear move- with Kazakh Permanent Representa- Staff Report 49:50, followed by Dmitry Gru- clear Weapons, reported Akorda.kz. One and a-half million people ment, having been born in the vil- tive to the International Organisa- zdev (1:10:00) and Daniil Fom- Nuclear weapons, unlike chemi- suffered from the 456 nuclear tests lage called Yegindibulak, located tions in Vienna Kairat Sarybay serv- NUR-SULTAN – Astana Pro inykh (1:31:00).