From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 12:19:46 EST
Kyrgyz prime minister to visit Japan for investment talks
Text of report by the Kyrgyz news agency Kabar on 3rd February
Bishkek, 3rd February: A joint session of the Kyrgyz-Japanese and
Japanese-Kyrgyz economic committees will be held in Tokyo on 6th to 9th
February 2000, to which Kyrgyz Prime Minister Amangeldy Muraliyev will head
a Kyrgyz delegation, the information department of the prime minister's
apparatus has reported. The main aim of the visit is to deepen economic
relations, expand foreign trade and investments and achieve progress in
economic, scientific and technical cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and
Japan. It is also planned to attract Japanese investors by holding an
investment seminar about the Kyrgyz Republic and by way of exchanging
information on the investment climate and on the regulatory and
legislative acts adopted with a view to attracting investors.
A number of investment projects will also be discussed during the visit. The
sides intend to continue talks on reconstruction of the Bishkek-Osh
motorway, on financing the project to rebuild Manas Aiport [in Bishkek], on
building a high-voltage power line between Frunzenskaya and Kemin [a
settlement in northern Chuy Region] and also to consider building a railway
between Balykchy and Kara-Keche [between a town in the northern tip of the
lake Issyk-Kul and the Kara-Keche coal mine in southeast Naryn Region].
Such economic fields as the mining sector, hydropower engineering, radio
electronics, the chemical and metallurgical sectors and light industry,
agriculture and tourism could become spheres of cooperation.
Source: Kabar news agency, Bishkek, in Russian 1147 gmt 03 Feb 00
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