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Kazakhstan: International Development
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Participating for the first time in international peacekeeping efforts, Kazakhstan contributed 27 soldiers and other personnel to the peacekeeping coalition in Iraq, in August 2003. In their first month in Iraq, Kazakh military engineers had destroyed 30,000 explosives.
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This year Kazakhstan's real GDP rose by 9.7% year-on-year. According to estimates, despite current international markets conditions the rate in 2008 will not go below 5-7% which will be propelled by high prices for Kazakhstan's main exports - oil, metals and wheat. Dynamic development of exports will ... support other sectors including S&MBs.
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Travellers in the mountainous country north of Afghanistan are ... urged to register and keep in contact with the Canadian Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at 7-727-250-1151, or by e-mail at almat(at)international.gc.ca. Read more
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