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Tuesday, 27 April 2004
KAZAKH DEFENSE MINISTER BOOSTS CHINA TIES
By empty (4/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev and his Chinese counterpart Cao Gangchuan signed a cooperation agreement in Peking on 27 April. Under the agreement, China will provide the Kazakh Army with aid worth 8 million yuans ($967,000). Between 1997 and 2003, Kazakh armed forces received 30 million yuans in aid from China.
Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev and his Chinese counterpart Cao Gangchuan signed a cooperation agreement in Peking on 27 April. Under the agreement, China will provide the Kazakh Army with aid worth 8 million yuans ($967,000). Between 1997 and 2003, Kazakh armed forces received 30 million yuans in aid from China. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is scheduled to visit China in May. Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Qayrat Abuseitov announced on 26 April that a final agreement on an oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to China might be signed during the president\'s visit. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)