Cost of organizing and holding Expo-2017 to be minimized - Finance Ministry

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Cost of organizing and holding of Expo-2017 will be minimized, this has been announced by Finance Minister Bakhyt Sultanov during the presentation of amendments to the republican budget for 2015-2017.

"Optimization is also subject to the costs of organizing and conducting the international specialized exhibition Expo-2017 in Astana in the amount of 10 billion tenge including the construction of the fairgrounds - 6.9 billion tenge," said Sultanov. According to the Minister, the main instrument to support economy and counter-cyclical fiscal policy in 2015-20106, will be the new economic policy of Kazakhstan "Nurly Zhol - The path to the future".