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Next meeting of Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission to be held in Baku in autumn

23 June 2009 14:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova â€“ APA. Kazakhstanâ€™s ambassador to Azerbaijan Serik Primbetov has today held a press conference, APA reports. According to the ambassador, 20 years have passed since the tests were stopped in Semipalatinsk nuclear site. He said 456 nuclear tests were carried out at Semipalatinsk within 40 years with a total power equal to 2,500 Hiroshima-type bombs. To restore those areas will take 300 years. The diplomat said Semipalatinsk became a large zone of ecological disaster, about one million people suffered from it, the government spent 34 billion tenges to eliminate its consequences. Kazakhstanâ€™s President Nursultan Nazarbayev offered to declare August 29, the day when Semipalatinsk nuclear site was opened, as the International Day of Nuclear Weapons Renunciation.

Answering questions Serik Primbetov said the level of economic-commercial relations between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan had not reduced.
â€œThe consequences of the crisis were eliminated, as Kazakhstan took a number of measures, $19 billion have been spent on it,â€ he said.
The ambassador said flour producing plant built under the grain terminal, Azerbaijani-Kazakh joint venture, will be opened this year. The diplomat said the meeting of the intergovernmental commission will be held in Baku in autumn. Asked about the new Almati-Baku flight, the diplomat said in the first flights there were 17-18 passengers, later the figure reached 70.
â€œIn the recent flight all the tickets were sold. Economic relations link our countries, businessmen pay mutual visits. 100,000 Azerbaijanis live in Kazakhstan, they come to see their relatives,â€ he said.