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January 26, 2007 11:01 AM ET Kazakhstan Aims to Complete WTO Talks ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Kazakhstan is planning to complete accession talks with the World Trade Organization this year, a joint government and National Bank statement said Friday. The energy-rich Central Asian nation, which applied to join the WTO in 1996, will also work out a system to control the quality of goods manufactured by domestic producers, said the annual statement that outlined the government's economic priorities and targets for 2007. Free-market reforms and generous foreign investment in the vast energy sector have made Kazakhstan one of the most economically successful post-Soviet states, with annual economic growth of nearly 10 percent in the past several years. However, the Kazakh economy lacks transparency and is dominated by the less-stable raw materials sector. Kazakhstan produces about 1.3 million barrels of oil a day, according to latest figures. Earlier this month Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed a new prime minister, Karim Masimov, tasking him with boosting the Kazakh economy's competitiveness as part of plans to enter the the 150-member Geneva-based organization that sets global trade rules. Vietnam became the WTO's most recent member earlier this month. © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
