WEEKLY REVIEW: Heads of Kazakhstan's state agencies to personally control 'Nur Otan' election platform's implementation
On Monday, March 4 President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has received Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan Bolat Zhamishev, the Presidential press service reported.
During the meeting B.Zhamishev reported on the execution of the republican budget in the current year, the work carried out by the Ministry and the main activities in the coming period.
The Finance Minister said that work on strengthening tax and customs administration, in particular, by the transfer of fiscal powers from Customs Tax Committee was underway. In addition, improving the system of public procurement and monitoring of the national budget.
The President stressed the need to further improvement of tax administration, including resolving problems in the functioning of the special tax treatment.
B.Zhamishev also said that all the procedures related to the transfer of budget planning issues to the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning had been completed.
Following the meeting, the Head of State has given a number of specific assignments
In addition, Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Yerbolat Dossayev informed at the Government hour in Majilis that Kazakhstan's GDP growth amounted to five per cent in 2012 .
"In the context of world economy poor development a number of parameters are low. Decreasing external demand, reduction in crop production by 27.7%, the decline in oil production from the planned 81 million tons to 79.2 million tons," the Minister said.
Dossayev noted that at the same time there had been an increase in some sectors. In particular, it refers to transport, communications, and wholesale and retail trade.
On March 5 the Kazakh Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov gave instructions to the heads of central and local executive bodies to control implementation of NDP "Nur Otan" election platform.
"I believe you are to do complex analyses of the implementation of activities of the plan with the structural changes in the bodies of the state administration, " S. Akhmetov has said today during the session of the Government.
Besides, the head of the Government instructed to provide placing of relevant information of the party's election platform implementation on their web-sites.
Besides, Prospects for implementation of new joint projects with Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Kazakhstan were discussed in the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, according to the press service of the ministry.
"Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Isekeshev met with Vice President of Toyota Tsusho Corporation Yasuhiko Yokoi, General Manager Teruyuki Mori and Head of Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Kazakhstan Ichihashi Takuya," according to the press release.
During the meeting the sides discussed prospects of investment projects in the engineering, food industry, chemical industry.
The management of the Japanese company expressed interest in establishing the production of components for cars, in particular - the production of batteries.
In addition, the sides discussed the issues of implementation of the projects on production of licorice root extract, nitrogen fertilizer from natural gas and glucose-fructose syrup.
Asset Issekeshev instructed the Industry Ministry agencies to make suggestions after a detailed study of the projects.
ON Wednesday, March 6 Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Zhumagulov has met with the Rectors of foreign Universities of Art.
The participants exchanged news in the artistic sphere of their countries. The guests expressed gratitude to Kazakhstan for a warm welcome.
In turn, B. Zhumagulov told about the last news of Kazakhstan education.
The meeting was attended by the heads of Art Universities from Italy, France, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Latvia and the institutions of Kazakhstan.
On March 7, Kazakh Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov has received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Kazakhstan Valery Brylev, who completes his diplomatic mission to Kazakhstan.
The sides discussed the issues of further strengthening of bilateral relations. "Our countries enjoy close economic relations, and we have huge potential of cooperation that is not realized in full," Akhmetov said.
The Premier noted the existence of opportunities for joint projects within the Customs Union and Single Economic Space. He pointed out the need to expand cooperation in machine-building, agricultural processing, construction, tourism sectors.
Brylev also emphasized good prospects for interaction in economic, education, cultural spheres.